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The duodenum is the valve between the stomach and the small intestine.
The small intestine is situated between and continuous with the stomach and the large intestine.
The pyloric valve is located between the stomach and the small intestine. It regulates the flow of partially digested food (chyme) from the stomach into the small intestine for further digestion and absorption.
The valve that controls the movement of food between the stomach and small intestine is called the pyloric sphincter. It regulates the passage of partially digested food from the stomach into the small intestine for further digestion and absorption.
The term for forming an opening between the stomach, small intestine, and colon is gastrojejunocolostomy.
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 sphincter muscle, or ileocecal valve is located at the junction of the small and large intestine.
It is called the pyloric valve.
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 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 ileum is the most distal portion of the small intestine from the pylorus of the stomach. It connects to the large intestine at the ileocecal valve.
It is called the Pylorus.