chyle

[kahyl]

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.

chyle

/ kaɪl, kaɪˈleɪʃəs /

noun

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

Other Word Forms

• chylaceous adjective
• chylous adjective
• pseudochylous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of chyle¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of chyle¹

C17: from Late Latin chӯlus, from Greek khulos juice pressed from a plant; related to Greek khein to pour

Example Sentences

He even inclined to the belief that the chyle has life, and he considered that food becomes “animalized” in digestion.

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There remained to be ascertained the real agent for the digestion of fatty matters; that is to say, the agent in the formation of chyle out of those substances.

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Thus they save much labor to the digestive organs, and accelerate the transition of meat into chyle.

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The condition is well known and is called achylia gastrica, that is, failure of the stomach to manufacture chyle, the scientific term for food changed by stomach secretions.

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The amount of chyle formed is very large in proportion to the quantity of food eaten.

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