chyme
[kahym]
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noun
the semifluid mass into which food is converted by gastric secretion and which passes from the stomach into the small intestine.
Origin of chyme
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Chyme is food, chemically altered by the action of the gastric juice.
OmphalosPhilip Henry Gosse
Chyme, kīm, n. the pulp to which the food is reduced in the stomach.
Chyle, a white juice, formed from the chyme, and consisting of the finer and more nutritious parts of the food.
A Treatise on Domestic EconomyCatherine Esther Beecher
Chyme, the result of the first process which food undergoes in the stomach, previously to its being converted into chyle.
A Treatise on Domestic EconomyCatherine Esther Beecher
The outflow of bile is excited by the contact of the chyme with the orifice of the bile-duct.
chyme
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Word Origin for chyme
C17: from Late Latin chӯmus, from Greek khumos juice; compare chyle
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