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Its a ring of muscles that move an animals food through its stomach and intestines.

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The pyloric valve is between the ileum and the cecum and prevent feces from backing into ileum?

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What does a fish's pyloric cecum do?

It is a cow that eats rainbows... I kid you, the Pyloric cecum is a ring of musles that moves food along the stomach and helps it mix in with the stomach asid and disolve into a dijustible substance that is ready to be broken down. The pyloric cecum pushes down or slides across the stomach to move the food. This is not found in all fish but most fish, it is also found in sea urchais and a few other crustation. Is an involintary mucle.


What is the function of a pyloric stomach in a starfish?

Pyloric caeca or hepatic caeca helps in a starfish's digestion. It is located in the their arms. After swallowing their prey, they then place it in their Pyloric caeca where the digestion process starts.


What does a perch's pyloric caeca do?

The Pyloric Caeca is a finger-like out-pocketing of the intestine where it meets the end of the stomach (pylorus). Also spelled cecum (ceca). Serves to aid digestion. It is basically where digestion occurs, as it aids the stomach in digestion.


What is the role of the cecum in digestion?

The function of the pyloric caecum is to aid in digestion. It is also known as the hepatic caeca and digestive caeca.


What structure separates the colon from the small intestine?

The ileum is the final part of the small intestine that leads into the colon/ large interstine. It is around this transition of the ileum into the colon that the cecum (or caecum) arises. (At the end of the cecum is the appendix).


What is Pyloric stenosis also called?

Pyloric stenosis is also referred to as hypertrophic pyloric stenosis


What does the appendix extend from?

Caecum or Cecum


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


How can you treat pain from cecum?

what to do for cecum pain relif


What is the description of the cecum?

cecum is the beginning of the Large Intestine