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Definition of Chyme
1. Noun. A semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum.
Definition of Chyme
1. 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.
Definition of Chyme
1. Noun. The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chyme
1. semi-digested food [n -S]
Medical Definition of Chyme
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Chyme
Literary usage of Chyme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1905)
"(c) Add a few drops of the chyme and gastric juice to milk in two test-tubes,
... (d) Examine a drop of the unfiltered chyme under the microscope. ..."
2. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1893)
"If raw starch has been partaken of, the chyme is sure to contain unaltered starch
grains. Lastly, if adipose tissue or any fat was contained in the food, ..."
3. Therapeutic Gazette (1894)
"It is suggested that the reason for this difference is that, when the dose of
iron is small, and when consequently the quantity of iron in the chyme is ..."
4. Outlines of human physiology by Herbert Mayo (1827)
"to dissolve into a thick fluid, termed chyme, which is described as an uniform
greyish pulp ... Dr. Prout describes the chyme of a dog fed on vegetable food ..."
5. New Conversations on Chemistry: Adapted to the Present State of that Science by Thomas P. Jones, Marcet (Jane Haldimand) (1832)
"Formation of chyme and Chyle. Bile, its Secretion and Use. ... We know however
that after the chyme has been prepared by the gastric juice, these lacteal ..."
6. Outlines of Anatomy and Physiology by Henri Milne-Edwards (1841)
"... but the aliments are here digested, and thus transformed into a pulpy and
semi-liquid mass, called chyme. uli™hymne.of The fragments, placed towards the ..."
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