Definition of chyme

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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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Pachometer :: Pachometer (n.) An instrument for measuring thickness, as of the glass of a mirror, or of paper; a pachymeter..
Chymiferous :: Chymiferous (a.) Bearing or containing chyme.
Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme..
Sclerenchyme :: Sclerenchyme (n.) Sclerenchyma.
Chymify :: Chymify (v. t.) To form into chyme.
Chyme :: 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.
Chyle :: Chyle (n.) A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct..
Chymification :: Chymification (n.) The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.
Elaboration :: Elaboration (n.) The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues..
Achymous :: Achymous (a.) Without chyme.
Pachymeningitis :: Pachymeningitis (n.) Inflammation of the dura mater or outer membrane of the brain.
Trachymedusae :: Trachymedusae (n. pl.) A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusae..
Chymous :: Chymous (a.) Of or pertaining to chyme.
Pachymeter :: Pachymeter (n.) Same as Pachometer.
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