chyme
pronunciation
How to pronounce chyme in British English:
UK [kaɪm]
How to pronounce chyme in American English:
US [kaɪm]
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- Noun:
- a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum
Word Origin
- chyme
- chyme: see gut
- chyme (n.)
- early 15c., "bodily fluid;" c. 1600 in specific sense of "mass of semi-liquid food in the stomach," from Latin chymus, from Greek khymos, nearly identical to khylos (see chyle) and meaning essentially the same thing. Differentiated by Galen, who used khymos for "juice in its natural or raw state," and khylos for "juice produced by digestion," hence the modern distinction.
Example
- 1. The influences of xylanase added in wheat basal diet on intestine chyme viscosity and the development of villi and microvilli of tilapia nilotica .