Pyloric stenosis
The Pyloric valve.
Stomach has 2 opening. - cardiac orifice opening of oesophagus into stomach - pyloric orifice opening between stomach and small intestine
The opening between the stomach and the small intestine is called the Pyloric Sphincter- it is a ring of muscle that contracts when the stomach is full, to seal off the opening to the small intestine whilst foodstuffs are liquified in the stomach. When this has been done, the sphincter muscle relaxes, re-opening the channel to allow the liquified nutrients into the intestines.
The ileocaecal valve.
It is the opening from the stomach into the duodenum (small intestine).
The Pyloric Sphincter is a ring of muscles that regulates the emptying of the stomach into the duodenum and prevents the contents of the small intestine from moving back into the stomach.
pyloric
An enterostomy is the surgical creation of an artificial opening into the intestine.
Between the stomach-small intestine is the Pyloric. Between the small intestine and large intestine is the ileo-caecal. Then 2 sphincters at the end of the "process:" one to send messages to your brain to tell you to go to the bathroom and one to "control" yourself.
The small intestine.
Actually The small intestine is not connected to the stomach. Between the stomach and the small intestine is the Duodendum. At the end of the small intestine the colon, or large intestine begins.
The duodenum is the valve between the stomach and the small intestine.