The physiological process by which food is converted into chyme in the stomach through mechanical and chemical breakdown.
From 'chyme' + '-fication' (making/turning into). The -fication suffix creates nouns describing processes of transformation, parallel to 'calcification' or 'certification'—it's the action of becoming or being made into something.
Chymification is the stomach's main job—churning, mixing, and bathing food in acids and enzymes until it becomes this uniform creamy paste, and it's so critical that if your stomach doesn't chymify food properly, your small intestine gets overwhelmed and nothing gets absorbed right.
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