Word: chyme
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...doesn't snag a summer job--from Let's Go preferably. Another threatened to kill his bubbly co-worker with his leatherman knife. Ooops. Blame it on nicotine withdrawal. Yet another was nearly arrested in the wee hours of Sunday morning after sharing his semi-digested pasta and savory chyme with an imposing 220 pound, goatee-sporting soul at a Bickford's in Braintree. And with the sidewalk...
...minutes after the food enters, the stomach secretes hydrochloric acid and pepsin which digest the food into a sour semifluid called chyme. The stomach churns this chyme, pumps it through a valve called the pylorus (gatekeeper) into the duodenum...
...duodenum, eleven inches long, is the beginning of the long small intestine. Here enter juices from the gall-bladder and pancreas. Those juices with the help of the duodenum's own alkaline secretions (mainly sodium bicarbonate), reduce the sour chyme's acidity. While this chemistry is going on, the duodenum pumps the mix forward into the next section of the intestine, the 8 ft. jejunum. During passage through the jejunum the alkalinization of the chyme ordinarily completes itself. The chyme becomes chyle, a creamy, nourishing substance which, while welling through more yardage of intestine, passes into the blood...
...connection with this Dr. Pfeiffer spoke of the perplexing question why the gastric juices did not effect the stomach itself while acting upon all other such substances. Passing on the partly digested food leaves the stomach, having an acid reaction and called chyme. As it enters the intestine, this chyme is attacked by the bile, which serves to neutralize the acid reaction, and further to aid in digesting the fats and oils. Then the pancreatic juice renders the mass fit for the blood to assimilate, and finishes the digestion of the fats and oils...
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