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chyme [kahym] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- the semifluid mass into which food is converted by gastric secretion and which passes from the stomach into the small intestine.
Origin of chyme 1600–10; Latin chȳmus Greek chȳmós juice, akin to chȳlós chyle Related formschy·mous, adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for chyme Historical Examples of chyme
Chyme is food, chemically altered by the action of the gastric juice.
Philip Henry Gosse
Chyme, kīm, n. the pulp to which the food is reduced in the stomach.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
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Chyle, a white juice, formed from the chyme, and consisting of the finer and more nutritious parts of the food.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy
Catherine Esther Beecher
Chyme, the result of the first process which food undergoes in the stomach, previously to its being converted into chyle.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy
Catherine Esther Beecher
The outflow of bile is excited by the contact of the chyme with the orifice of the bile-duct.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II
Various
British Dictionary definitions for chyme chyme noun
- the thick fluid mass of partially digested food that leaves the stomach
Derived Formschymous, adjectiveWord Origin for chyme C17: from Late Latin chӯmus, from Greek khumos juice; compare chyle Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for chyme n.
early 15c., “bodily fluid;” c.1600 in specific sense of “mass of semi-liquid food in the stomach,” from Latin chymus, from Greek khymos, nearly identical to khylos (see chyle) and meaning essentially the same thing. Differentiated by Galen, who used khymos for “juice in its natural or raw state,” and khylos for “juice produced by digestion,” hence the modern distinction.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper chyme in Medicine chyme [kīm] n.
- The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
Related formschy′mous (kī′məs) adj. The American Heritage® Stedman’s Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. chyme in Science chyme [kīm]
- The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
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