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chyme

UK/kaɪm/ uncommon

noun

1.

a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum

Origin

From Late Latin chymus, from Ancient Greek χυμός (khumós, “juice”).

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