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Two of them are the pyloric valve, which opens and closes to let the contents of the stomach enter the small intestine, and the sphincter valve which opens to let the contents of the sigmoid colon move to the "outside world".

Actually, "sphincter" is the general word for any such muscular ringlike valve.

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