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it's the muscle that keeps the stomach closed in the inferior portion of the stomach, just like in humans.

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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.


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.


Which is not a sphincter duodenal esophageal pyloric or ileocecal?

Duodenal is not a sphincter. The other options (esophageal, pyloric, ileocecal) are all sphincters.


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 slows intestinal motility and causes the pyloric sphincter to contract?

the pyloric sphincter regulates the speed at which the chyme (mixture of food from stomach) can enter into the small intestine to be digested. The pyloric sphincter opens and closes according to the acidity of the chyme.

Related Questions

How many stomachs does a pig have?

A pig has one stomach, but it is divided into four different sections: the esophagus, the fundic region, the body, and the pyloric region. Each section serves a different function in the digestive process.


What part is the most muscular part of the digestive system in a pig?

The most muscular part of the digestive system in a pig is the stomach. The stomach is made up of four regions, which are the oesophageal, cardiac, fundic and pyloric regions.


What do you think are the functions of the pyloric valve and the cardiac valve in a pig?

The cardiac sphincter is located at the top of the stomach and controls the direction of food passing through the esophagus so that no food will re enter the esophagus. The Pyloric sphincter stops bile and digested food from entering the stomach, this valve is located at the bottom of the stomach.


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?

the Pyloric ceca secrets digestive enzymes


Narrowed region of the stomach before the small intestine?

pyloric part ( pyloric antrum and pyloric sphincter)


Where is the pyloric section located in a pig?

One of the reasons that you are studying pigs, it that they are exactly like us. The pylorus in the digestive system in both pigs and humans is a part of the stomach that produces gastrin. It is the very last section of the stomach. It has a muscle like structure that forms a sphincter that controls the outlet of pyloric portion of stomach into duodenum.


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.