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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum. uncountable, usually
2. 2
   a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum wordnet

Etymology

From Late Latin chymus, from Ancient Greek χυμός (khumós, “juice”).

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