chyme

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These two digestive fluids are now mixed with the chyme, and act upon it in the remarkable manner just described.

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  1. noun The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.

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  • Because my valve was open, the chyme could go back into the small intestine and waste substances and gases from the chyme would be absorbed by the intestinewall and brought into the blood causing fecal body odor. —  Serendip's Exchange -
  • Since chyme would just flow into my large intestine I was having diarrhea! —  Serendip's Exchange -
  • I mean, they've done such a number on it that it's no longer food - it's called chyme, a partially digested semifluid mass that probably smells like what would come out of a dog if you fed it raw pork, bleach, and hot sauce. —  The Seventh Sense
  • If you try he'll ignore you and you'll just hear the deep, quiet sound of chyme processing. —  The Seventh Sense
  • When a human ingests food it is first broken up by chewing, then churned up in the stomach with digestive juices to form a bolus called chyme. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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  1. Middle English chime, humors, body fluids, from Old French, from Late Latin chȳmus, from Greek khūmos, juice; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French chyme = Spanish quimo = Portuguese chymo = Italian chimo, from Late Latin chmus, from Greek χυμός, juice, chyle, in most senses equivalent to χυλός, both ‘chyle’ and ‘juice,’ from χείν, pour: see chyle, and cf. alchemy.
 

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