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n. - A semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum.

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  • For, oh! through deeds, that turn the blood to chyme
  • -- "It weakens the stomach and makes it unfit to change the food into chyme."
  • The food taken into the stomach is, by the gastric juice, converted into a thick pulp, called chyme.
  • -- "Because, if I eat too much food, my stomach will have too much work to do in changing it into chyme."
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