chymous
chyme
(kīm)n. The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
[Middle English
chime,
humors, body fluids, from Old French, from Late Latin
chȳmus, from Greek
khūmos,
juice; see
gheu- in
Indo-European roots.]
chy′mous (kī′məs) adj.
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