Preampullary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Preampullary is an adjective meaning (biology, anatomy, medicine) Before an ampulla, as for example (usually, more specifically) upstream of the ampulla of Vater in the lumen of the duodenum; structures and events that are preampullary thus exist in the foregut rather than in the midgut.
Meaning
(biology, anatomy, medicine) Before an ampulla, as for example (usually, more specifically) upstream of the ampulla of Vater in the lumen of the duodenum; structures and events that are preampullary thus exist in the foregut rather than in the midgut.
Example Sentences
Patients were grouped into a preampullary or postampullary group according to the obstruction in relation to the ampulla of Vater.
Antonyms for preampullary
Common opposites include postampullary.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include postampullary, periampullary, transampullary, preintestinal, supraduodenal, precollicular.
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