Chyme

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Food as it passes out of the stomach after gastric digestion, and before it has been acted on by the pancreatic, hepatic, and intestinal secretions.
  • An obsolete form of chime.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    nutrient    food   
    Variant
    chyle   
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