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chyme
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CHYME
n.That particular modification which food assumes after it has undergone the action of the stomach. Among the older authors, juice; chyle, or the finest part of the chyle contained in the lacteals and thoracic duct; any humor incrassated by concoction, whether fit or unfit for preserving and nourishing the body.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CHYME
Chyme, n. Etym: [L. chymus chyle, Gr. chyme. See Chyle. ] (Physiol.)
Defn: 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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
chyme
chyme |kīm kaɪm | ▶noun Physiology the pulpy acidic fluid that passes from the stomach to the small intestine, consisting of gastric juices and partly digested food. DERIVATIVES chy mous |ˈkīməs |adjective ORIGIN late Middle English: from late Latin chymus, from Greek khūmos ‘juice ’ (compare with chyle ). The Greek words khūlos and khūmos are from the same root and more or less identical in sense; however, khūlos came to be used for juice in a raw or natural state, khūmos for juice produced by decoction or digestion.
Oxford Dictionary
chyme
chyme |kʌɪm | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Physiology the pulpy acidic fluid which passes from the stomach to the small intestine, consisting of gastric juices and partly digested food. DERIVATIVES chymous adjective ORIGIN late Middle English: from late Latin chymus, from Greek khūmos ‘juice ’ (compare with chyle ). The Greek words khūlos and khūmos are from the same root and more or less identical in sense.
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