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chyme
n. digested food


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Chyme
Chyme, also known as Chymus is the liquid substance found in the stomach before passing through the pyloric valve and entering the duodenum. It results from the mechanical and chemical breakdown of a bolus and consists of partially digested food, water, hydrochloric acid, and various digestive enzymes. Chyme slowly passes through the pyloric sphincter and into the duodenum, where the extraction of nutrients begins. Depending on the quantity and contents of the meal, the stomach will digest the food into chyme anywhere between 40 minutes and a few hours.
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Chyme
Chyme the semifluid, creamy material produced by digestion of food. chyme n. The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from [more]Chyme - Community and Resources

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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
(hypernym) food, nutrient


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Chyme
(n.)
The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.
  

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