1. Noun
The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.
2. Noun
a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum
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