chyle

American  

[kahyl] / kaɪl /

noun

1. a milky fluid containing emulsified fat and other products of digestion, formed from the chyme in the small intestine and conveyed by the lacteals and the thoracic duct to the veins.

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chyle British  

/ kaɪl, kaɪˈleɪʃəs /

noun

1. a milky fluid composed of lymph and emulsified fat globules, formed in the small intestine during digestion

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Other Word Forms

• chylaceous adjective
• chylous adjective
• pseudochylous adjective

Etymology

Origin of chyle

1535–45; < Late Latin chȳlus < Greek chȳlós juice, akin to cheîn to pour, Latin fundere to pour ( see fuse ²), English gut

Example Sentences

The chyle then travels through the lymphatic system, eventually entering the bloodstream.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

In the small intestine, dietary triglycerides combine with other lipids and proteins, and enter the lacteals to form a milky fluid called chyle.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The chyme becomes chyle, a creamy, nourishing substance which, while welling through more yardage of intestine, passes into the blood through lymphatic structure called lacteals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Phlegm is nothing but superfluous chyle and nourishment, as the taking down more food than the expenses of living and the waste of the solids and fluids require.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Venous absorption is the function which the veins perform in absorbing from the alimentary canal liquids of various kinds that have been taken into the stomach and are not converted into chyle.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin