pyloric stenosis

1. 1.

   narrowing of the pyloric sphincter that blocks the passage of food from the stomach into the duodenum

   Broaderstenosis

Questions about pyloric stenosis

What does pyloric stenosis mean?

pyloric stenosis means "narrowing of the pyloric sphincter that blocks the passage of food from the stomach into the duodenum".

Is pyloric stenosis a common word?

pyloric stenosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.