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It means an infection in the stomach, near where it joind the small intestine, this region has an area called the pylorus.
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What is pre-pyloric?
The bottom of the stomach is the pyloric area, with the pyloric sphincter separating the stomach from the duodenum (first portion of the small intestine). The top of the stomach is the cardiac area with the cardiac sphincter. The pre-pyloric area is the area just above the phyloric sphincter where they do biopsies to test for an H-Pylori infection. The pyloric area consists of two parts the pyloric canal and the pyloric antrum.
What is erosion in the pre-pyloric region?
erosion in the pre-pyloric region
Sphincter controlling the movement of food from the stomach into the duodenum?
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.
Do adults have problems with their pyloric sphincter?
In adults the pyloric muscle or valve can be closed by scarring (from ulceration) or cancer. Sometimes pyloric stenosis in infancy is not severe enough to warrant surgery and for whatever reason some of these children grow up still having problems with their pyloric function. Problems with the pyloric sphincter in adults can be managed by medication, lifestyle changes, and/or surgery.
Pyloric sphincter function?
The function of the pyloric sphincter is that it controls the movement of food from the stomach into the small intestine.
What is pre-pyloric?
The bottom of the stomach is the pyloric area, with the pyloric sphincter separating the stomach from the duodenum (first portion of the small intestine). The top of the stomach is the cardiac area with the cardiac sphincter. The pre-pyloric area is the area just above the phyloric sphincter where they do biopsies to test for an H-Pylori infection. The pyloric area consists of two parts the pyloric canal and the pyloric antrum.
What does the medical abbreviation PS mean?
Pyloric Stenosis
What is Pyloric stenosis also called?
Pyloric stenosis is also referred to as hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
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 does the pyloric?
the Pyloric ceca secrets digestive enzymes
What is the medical term meaning narrowing of the pyloric sphincter?
Pylororrhaphy is the medical term meaning suture of the pyloric valve. A related term, pyloroplasty, means surgical repair of the pyloric valve.
What does the pyloric caeca do?
the Pyloric ceca secrets digestive enzymes
What does the pyloric caeca?
the Pyloric ceca secrets digestive enzymes
Narrowed region of the stomach before the small intestine?
pyloric part ( pyloric antrum and pyloric sphincter)
What is erosion in the pre-pyloric region?
erosion in the pre-pyloric region
What is the narrowing of the opening between the stomach and intestines?
The Pyloric valve.
Name of the valve between the esophagus and the stomach?
The stomach and first part of the small intestine (duodenum) is connected by pylorus which has 2 parts. The on the stomach opening is called pyloric antrum and the opening in the duodenum is the pyloric canal type.
