Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fat extracted from chyme by the lacteals during digestion and passed to the bloodstream through the thoracic duct.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A milky fluid found in the lacteals during the process of digestion.
- noun The liquid contents of the small intestine before absorption.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.
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- noun A
digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats; formed in the small intestine during digestion of ingested fats
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is difficult to explain how chyle, which is a light and almost insipid fluid, can be extracted from a mass, the color of which, and the taste, are so deeply pronounced.
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It is difficult to explain how chyle, which is a light and almost insipid fluid, can be extracted from a mass, the color of which, and the taste, are so deeply pronounced.
The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790
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The use of these vessels is to absorb the fluid part of the digested aliment, called chyle, and convey it into the receptacle of the chyle, that it may be thence carried through the thoracic duct into the blood.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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For when the drastic purges are taken by the mouth, they excite the lacteals of the intestines into retrograde motions, as appears from the chyle, which is found coagulated among the fæces, as was shewn above,
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The receptacle of the chyle is a membranous bag, about two thirds of an inch long, and one third of an inch wide, at its superior part it is contracted into a slender membranous pipe, called the thoracic duct, because its course is principally through the thorax; it passes between the aorta and the vena azygos, then obliquely over the oesophagus, and great curvature of the aorta, and continuing its course towards the internal jugular vein, it enters the left subclavian vein on its superior part.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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The chyle, which is seen among the materials thrown up by violent vomiting, or in purging stools, can only come thither by its having been poured into the bowels by the inverted motions of the lacteals: for our aliment is not converted into chyle in the stomach or intestines by a chemical process, but is made in the very mouths of the lacteals; or in the mesenteric glands; in the same manner as other secreted fluids are made by an animal process in their adapted glands.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Besides these delicacies, there was a pudding, or dessert, of preserved crowberries, mixed with "chyle" from the maw of the reindeer, with train oil for sauce.
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“Al – Musrán” (plur. of “Masír”) properly the intestines which contain the chyle.
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It does not tell the heart to beat, the blood to flow, the chyle to form; all this is done without it.
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The greater diversity of aliments it afterwards receives, the more the chyle is liable to be soured.
fbharjo commented on the word chyle
juice
February 14, 2007
yarb commented on the word chyle
While executing these honourable commissions, and getting forward daily in the good graces of the prime minister, what a happy being should I have been, if statesmen were born with a set of intestines to turn the chameleon's diet into chyle!
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 8 ch. 5
October 3, 2008