ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -The stomach muscles churn and mix the food with digestive juices that have acids and enzymes. These juices help break up food into much smaller pieces. By the time food is ready to leave the stomach, it has been turned into a thick liquid called chyme (kime).

Detailed explanation-2: -Antrum. Strong wave-like muscle movements (peristaltic contractions) mix food with gastric secretions in the antrum, producing chyme. Each peristaltic wave propels chyme toward the pyloric sphincter, which results in thorough mixing.

Detailed explanation-3: -The liquid mixture is called chyme. When it’s ready, your stomach squirts the chyme into the small intestine where digestion continues and absorption of those all-important nutrients occurs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chyme is part liquid and part solid: a thick semifluid mass of partially digested food and digestive secretions that is formed in the stomach and small intestine during digestion.

Detailed explanation-5: -Once chyme is initially formed in the stomach, it passes to the duodenum (the first portion of the small intestine) for additional processing. In the duodenum, it is combined with fluids from the pancreas, liver, and gallbladder to facilitate digestion even further.