noun
- the thick liquid mass of partly digested food that passes from the stomach to the small intestine
Usage: medical; biology
Examples
- The stomach churns food into chyme before releasing it into the duodenum.
- Chyme contains partially digested proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
- The acidic chyme is neutralized by bile in the small intestine.
- It takes several hours for food to be converted into chyme.
- The pyloric sphincter controls the flow of chyme from the stomach.
- Digestive enzymes continue to break down chyme as it moves through the intestines.