pylorochesis (pilorokesis)

[NL., Gr. πυλωρός, pylorus, + ὄχησις, a carrying, driving (taken in sense of 'holding'), pylorus (pi-lō'rus), n.; pl. pylori (-ri). [NL., membrane, containing muscular fibers, which guards the pyloric orifice, or other contrivance for retarding or opposing the pa age of food from the stomach into the intestine. (c) The pyloric end or division of the stomach.-3. In Hydrozoa, a valvular structure which separates the gastric from the somatic cavity in the siphonophorous hydrozoans. Antrum pylori. See antrum. Sphincter pylori, a bundle of unstriped muscular fibers encircling the pyloric end of the stomach. Same as bloodwood, 4. pymma (pim'ä), n. pympert, v. t. An obsolete variant (or misprint) of pamper. Good mistre Statham, seeing what case I was in, hath fetched me home to her own house, and doth pymper Latimer, Sermons and Remains (Parker Soc.), p. 386. [ ( Davies.) me up with all diligence, for I fear a consumption.