Chyme vs Bile - What's the difference?
chyme | bile |
The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
(biochemistry) A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
* {{quote-book, year=1890, author=Walter Scott, title=The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1616, author=Alexander Roberts, title=A Treatise of Witchcraft, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He spake out of the Pythonesse'', ''Act. 16. 17.'' brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed ''Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head. }}
As nouns the difference between chyme and bile
is that chyme is the thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum while bile is a bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.chyme
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(wikipedia chyme)Noun
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*bile
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(wikipedia bile)Etymology 1
Mid 16th century, via (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
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