Definitions for chyme

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Spelling: [kahym]
IPA: /kaɪm/

Chyme is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in chyme (cehmy).

Definitions for chyme

noun

  1. the semifluid mass into which food is converted by gastric secretion and which passes from the stomach into the small intestine.

Origin of chyme

1600-10; Latin chȳmus Greek chȳmós juice, akin to chȳlós chyle

Examples for chyme

chyme is food, chemically altered by the action of the gastric juice.

These two digestive fluids are now mixed with the chyme, and act upon it in the remarkable manner just described.

The bile and pancreatic fluid are conveyed into the duodenum, and mixed with the chyme.

The chyme not only excites an action in the duodenum, but also in the liver and pancreas.

The outflow of bile is excited by the contact of the chyme with the orifice of the bile-duct.

chyme, kīm, n. the pulp to which the food is reduced in the stomach.

chyme, the result of the first process which food undergoes in the stomach, previously to its being converted into chyle.

The chyle was formed out of chyme, changed by the action of the pancreatic and biliary secretions.

The chyme, thus acted upon by the different digestive fluids, resembles a thick cream, and is now called chyle.

Chyle, a white juice, formed from the chyme, and consisting of the finer and more nutritious parts of the food.

Word Value for chyme
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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