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Kirby(dictionary)
KIRBY'S QUEST(law)
kirby-grip(dictionary)
KIRBY' S QUEST(law)
Kirby Castle(tourism)
Kirby Cove Beach(tourism)
West Kirby Beach(tourism)
Kirby-Bauer test(medicine)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)

pylorus (medicine) and Kirby (iou)


pylorus (medicine)


pylorus
<anatomy> The opening in a vertebrate from the stomach into the intestine.

Origin: Gr. Pyloros = gatekeeper


Kirby (iou)



Kirby noun. E19.
[Charles Kirby, 17th-cent. English fish-hook maker.]
Used attrib. and (formerly) in possess. to designate a design of fish-hook originated by Kirby.