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Updated: May 14, 2025
This is true even when food has been well masticated; but it becomes strikingly apparent when a full meal has been hastily swallowed, both mastication and insalivation having been imperfectly performed. The time usually occupied in the process of chymification, when food has been properly masticated, varies from three to four hours.
Physiologists have hence sometimes called the former part of the process, or chymification, by the more simple term stomach digestion; and the latter, or chylification, has been termed intestinal digestion. The bowels have distinct coats corresponding with those of the stomach.
When the food reaches the stomach, it is converted into a soft, pulpy mass, called chyme; and the process by which this change is effected is called chymification. This is the second principal step in digestion, and is effected immediately by the action of the gastric juice. This powerful solvent is secreted by the gastric glands, which are excited to action by the presence of food in the stomach.
Hence frequently arise and especially in children and persons of delicate constitution pains, nausea, and acidity, consequent on the continued presence of undigested aliment in the stomach. CHYMIFICATION. As soon as food has been thoroughly masticated and impregnated with saliva, it is ready for transmission to the stomach.
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