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intestinal juice

noun

Medical Definition of INTESTINAL JUICE

:  a fluid that is secreted in small quantity in the small intestine, is highly variable in constitution, and contains especially various enzymes (as erepsin, lipase, lactase, enterokinase, and amylase) and mucus—called also succus entericus

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