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CHYME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chyme mean?
• CHYME (noun)
The noun CHYME has 1 sense:
1. a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum
Familiarity information: CHYME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("chyme" is a kind of...):
food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)
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