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Pyloric sphincter controls the movement of food from stomach to duodenum. With parasympathetic or vagal stimulation it opens up or relaxes and with sympathetic stimulation it contracts or closes.

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Valve controlling food movement from the stomach into the duodenum?

Pyloric valve


Where is the pylori sphincter?

The English name is pyloric sphincter (i.e. pylori has a c at the end). The Latin is sphincter pylori. This is a sphincter muscle at the lower end of the stomach controlling the amount of food being released into the duodenum.


Valve preventing movement of chyme from the duodenum into the stomach?

The pyloric sphincter, or valve, is a strong ring of smooth muscle at the end of the pyloric canal and lets food pass from the stomach to the duodenum. It receives sympathetic innervation from celiac ganglion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pylorus


What is one function of the pyloric sphincter?

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The correct term for small intestine to stomach?

Duodenum? I am not sure I understand your question. Before the duodenum is the pyloric sphincter.


Is the ring like muscle that controls the flow from the stomach to the small intestine?

The ring like muscle that controls the flow from the stomach to the small intestine is called the pylorus or the pyloric sphincter. It is divided into two parts: the pyloric antrum which is connected to the body of the stomach and the pyloric canal which is connected to the beginning of the small intestine (the duodenum).


What two structures in the gastrointestinal tract are connected by the pyloric sphincter?

Stomach and Duodenum


What controls the flow of partially digested food from the stomach to the duodenum?

its the pyloric sphincter


The region of the stomach that empties into the duodenum is the?

The region of the stomach that empties into the duodenum is the pyloric region, specifically through the pyloric sphincter. This sphincter regulates the flow of partially digested food (chyme) from the stomach into the small intestine for further digestion and absorption.


What is the muscle that opens and closes the entrance from the stomach to the duodenum?

The pyloric sphincter muscle regulates the flow of chyme from the stomach to the duodenum just a few mL at a time.


What is one function of the pyloric valve?

It serves to regulate the movement of food out of the stomach and prevents bile in the small intestine from moving back into the stomach.


The ring of muscles at the opening between the stomach and the duodenum is the?

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.