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intestinal juice

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

 
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