Chyme

The partly digested mass of food in the stomach.


Nearly liquid mixture, composed of partially digested food and gastric secretions, that is found in the stomach and duodenum during digestion of a meal.


A semifluid, thick mass consisting of food broken down by the digestive action of gastric juices in the stomach and passes into the small intestine.


A semi-liquid mass of food and gastric juices, which passes from the stomach to the intestine.


The thick, grayish, semiliquid mass into which food is converted by gastric digestion. In this form it passes into the small intestine.


The semifluid mass of partly digested food extruded from the stomach into the duodenum of the small intestine.


Thick, semifluid mixture, consisting of partly digested food and digestive juices, that passes from the stomach to the duodenum of the small intestine.


The semisolid mixture of digestive juices, saliva, and chewed food.


The semiliquid acid mass that is the form in which food passes from the stomach to the small intestine. It is produced by the action of gastric juice and the churning movements of the stomach.


Partly digested food as it issues from the stomach into the intestine. It is very acid and grey in colour, containing salts and sugars in solution, and the animal food softened into a semi-liquid mass. It is next converted into chyle.


The mixture of partly digested food and digestive secretions found in the stomach and small intestine during digestion of a meal. It is a varicolored, thick, nearly liquid mass.


The thick liquid formed in the stomach; a mixture of food and gastric juices.


A viscous digesta discovered in the gastric cavity prior to its transit to the duodenal section.


Food that has undergone digestion in the stomach but has not yet entered the intestine for further digestive processes.


 


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