noun
definition
The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
Examples of chyme in a Sentence
By the time food is ready to leave the stomach, it has been formed into a thick liquid called chyme.
Each day approximately 500ml of food material, or chyme, enter the caecum.
These foods often produce very viscous intragastric chyme and this program is designed to find out how the stomach deals with such food.
Squirts of acidic chyme through the pylorus trigger hormonal responses mediated by enteroendocrine cells in the duodenal wall.
This acts to control the amount of digested stomach contents chyme - which slowly enters the duodenum a little amount at a time.