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Webster 1913 Edition

Chyle

Chyle

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Noun.
[NL.
chylus
, Gr. [GREEK] juice, chyle, fr. [GREEK] to pour: cf. F.
chyle
; prob. akin to E.
fuse
to melt.]
(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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Chyle

CHYLE

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Noun.
In animal bodies, a white or milky fluid separated from aliments by means of digestion. It is absorbed by the lacteal vessels, by which it is conveyed into the circulation, assimilated into blood, and converted into nutriment.

Definition 2024

chyle

chyle

English

Noun

chyle ‎(countable and uncountable, plural chyles)

  1. A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
    • 1922, And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine. — James Joyce, Ulysses

Translations

Anagrams

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈxɨlɛ]

Verb

chyle

  1. third-person plural present of chyliś

Etymology

From French, from Latin chylus, from Ancient Greek χυλός ‎(khulós, “animal or plant juice”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaɪl/
  • Rhymes: -aɪl
  • Homophones: kile, kyle, Kyle

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