Talk:Pylorus
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I vote this be moved to pyloric sphincter -> nobody calls it a valve. (I read some where not to be hasty in moves)
Valves are what you have in your heart. your mouth, ass and pylorus are sphincters.--ZZ 03:16, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
How about just "pylorus" -- anatomically correct? Barry Zuckerkorn 19:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Ignatius J. Reilly refers to it quite often as a valve. He is, I'm sure, far more superior in intelligence to the likes of you.
-- stay put, I'm among the undoubted many who come to this subject through Ignatius. Valve is helpful.
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[edit] Sphincter/Valve
sphincter means 'ring of muscle'
see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphincter
I might update Wiktionary after this. Here's hoping it's the best definition on google (define: sphincter).
[edit] Valve/Sphincter
or I could edit wiktionary or wikimedical or whatever-the-hell-it's-called. It's taken me 30 minutes to figure out how to edit this one article and I haven't done it yet.
Might not bother.
[edit] Significance of Sphincter
Shouldn't there be something on the purpose or significance of the sphincter, or I guess the function? Considering that the cardiac sphincter, the proverbial sister of the pyloric sphincter, has a purpose/function to ensure that there isn't backflow into the esophagus that would burn the esophagus.
~~Chem Lady~~ 20:14, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
It could be something along the lines of:
"As a sphincter, the pylorus, as it is also known as, ensures that there is regulation in the movement of food between the stomach and small intestine. Thus there is a flow in the movement and it ensures that the stomach first completes its purpose in digestion and then the acid chyme can enter the small intestine. This regulation also protects the small intestine since a constant influx of acid into the duodenum would be harmful towards the vital enzymes in the small intestine, such as the pancreatic amylase, which denature at low pH levels."
That isn't a quote, I just wanted to make sure it was obvious what I meant.
~~Chem Lady~~ 20:19, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
The contraction of the pylorus stimulates the release of a peptide in the stomach that registers being full in the brain through a nerve i can't remember...
[edit] Merger suggestion Pyloric antrum => Pylorus
from edit summary: the content of Pyloric antrum and Pylorus are much overlapping but not redundant; Pyloric antrum speaks to an anatomical substructure. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:14, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
