"Chyme" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stage in which the part that promises profit is extracted. The corresponding step in the assimilation of food is what is technically called digestion, which is the separation of the nutritious from the waste elements, or the conversion of food into chyme, preparatory to assimilation. ...
— How To Study and Teaching How To Study • F. M. McMurry
... food at this stage is called chyme; it is an acid and soup-like fluid— acid through the influence of the gastric juice. The temperature of the animal's body is sufficiently high to keep most of the fat in the food melted and floating in oily drops; much of the starch, has been changed to sugar, and the solid ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells
... it act on fats, except to dissolve the albuminous walls of the fat cells. The fat itself is thus set free in the form of minute globules. The whole contents of the stomach now assume the appearance and the consistency of a thick soup, usually of a grayish color, known as chyme. ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell |
