Usually means: Valve between stomach and intestine.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word pylorus:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. pylorus: Merriam-Webster
  2. pylorus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pylorus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pylorus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pylorus: Vocabulary.com
  6. pylorus: Wordnik
  7. Pylorus: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. pylorus: Wiktionary
  9. pylorus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pylorus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pylorus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pylorus: Dictionary.com
  13. Pylorus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Pylorus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. pylorus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. pylorus: Rhymezone
  17. Pylorus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. pylorus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. pylorus: FreeDictionary.org
  20. pylorus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. pylorus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pylorus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. pylorus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pylorus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  9. pylorus: Medical dictionary
  10. Pylorus: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See pylori as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pylorus)

noun:  (anatomy, biology) In vertebrates, including humans, a zone at the lower end of the stomach that leads to and opens into the duodenum.
noun:  A muscular or myovascular structure that controls the opening of an orifice or lumen of an organ.

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