Gastric pits are
indentations in the
stomach which denote entrances to the tubular shaped
gastric glands. They are deeper in the
pylorus than they are in the other parts of the stomach. The human stomach has several million of these pits which dot the surface of the lining
epithelium.
Surface mucous cells line the pits themselves but give way to a series of other types of cells which then line the glands themselves.