Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation of the digestive, absorptive, and circulatory processes concerned in the formation and absorption of chyle from food. Also called
chylosis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) The formation of chyle. See
chylifaction .
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- noun The production of
chyle
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Examples
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It acts upon the bile, augments digestion, and strengthens chylification.
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Physiologists have hence sometimes called the former part of the process, or chymification, by the more simple term _stomach digestion_; and the latter, or chylification, has been termed
Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Ira Mayhew 1854
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This derangement in chylification increased his gout, his stomach became paralytic, and he died at the age of fifty-eight. "
A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation Orin Fowler 1821
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