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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intestinal Plumbing | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

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