chyle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: chyle	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for chyle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chyle n a milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats; formed in the small intestine during digestion of ingested fats
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chyle \Chyle\, n. [NL. chylus, Gr. [?] juice, chyle, fr. [?] 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.