chyle

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

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

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chyle, n. a milky fluid consisting of lymph and absorbed food materials from the intestine after digestion.

Derivative

chylous adj.

Etymology

LL chylus f. Gk khulos juice

ROGET THESAURUS

chyle

Fluidity

N fluidity, liquidity, liquidness, gaseity, fluid, inelastic fluid, liquid, liquor, lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies, chyle, solubility, solubleness, hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy, ichorous, fluent, liquefied, uncongealed, soluble.