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Chyme

noun
1.
A semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum.





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... end of the stomach contracts regularly and violently, churning the food with the juice, and gradually squirting it, when liquified to Chyme, into the small intestine. If food is not chewed until almost liquified, the gastric juice cannot act normally, but has to attack as much of the surface of the food-lump as possible, leaving the interior to ...
— Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia • Isaac G. Briggs


Words linked to "Chyme" :   food, nutrient


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