APPLIED RADIOLOGICAL ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Chyme is a churned semi-solid food that is formed in the stomach of the digestive tract. The semi-digested food from the mouth enters the stomach where it gets mixed with gastric juice that contains certain enzymes and hydrochloric acid.

Detailed explanation-2: -Your digestive glands in your stomach lining produce stomach acid and enzymes, which mix with the food to form a murky semifluid mass or paste called chyme.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chyme or chymus (/kaɪm/; from Greek khymos, “juice") is the semi-fluid mass of partly digested food that is expelled by a person’s or an animal’s stomach, through the pyloric valve, into the duodenum (the beginning of the small intestine).

Detailed explanation-4: -Chyme is initially created in the stomach through both mechanical and chemical processes and passed on into the small intestine for absorption. Chyme is a critical component of gut health and the digestive system.

Detailed explanation-5: -Chyme is then squirted down into the small intestine, where digestion of food continues so the body can absorb the nutrients into the bloodstream. This opens in a new window. The small intestine is made up of three parts: the duodenum (pronounced: due-uh-DEE-num), the C-shaped first part.