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[mass noun] The pulpy acidic fluid which passes from the stomach to the small intestine, consisting of gastric juices and partly digested food.
- ‘The mixture of gastric secretions, saliva, and food, known collectively as chyme, moves to the small intestine.’
- ‘By the time food is ready to leave the stomach, it has been processed into a thick liquid called chyme.’
- ‘They also reduce the passage of chyme through diseased parts of the upper gut, thereby minimising further pain.’
- ‘The body of the stomach produces acid and has a muscular digestive function for mixing chyme.’
- ‘The rate of emptying of chyme from the stomach varies with the composition of the meal.’
Late Middle English: from late Latin chymus, from Greek khūmos juice (compare with chyle). The Greek words khūlos and khūmos are from the same root and more or less identical in sense.
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