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... > Digestive System > Gastrointestinal Tract > Intestines > Intestine, Small > Duodenum > Ampulla of Vater > Sphincter of Oddi
... > Digestive System > Gastrointestinal Tract > Upper Gastrointestinal Tract > Duodenum > Ampulla of Vater > Sphincter of Oddi
... > Digestive System > Biliary Tract > Bile Ducts > Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic > Common Bile Duct > Ampulla of Vater > Sphincter of Oddi
Digestive System > Pancreas > Pancreatic Ducts > Ampulla of Vater > Sphincter of Oddi

Preferred term

Sphincter of Oddi  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Oddi's Sphincter
  • Oddis Sphincter
  • Sphincter, Oddi's

Note

  • diseases: coord IM with COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASES (IM); inflammation: coord IM with CHOLANGITIS (IM); neopl: coord IM with COMMON BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS (IM)

Scope note

  • The sphincter of the hepatopancreatic ampulla within the duodenal papilla. The COMMON BILE DUCT and main pancreatic duct pass through this sphincter.

History note

  • 2004 (1975)

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009803

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