chyle
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A milky fluid in the body that carries fat from the small intestine after you eat fatty food
- noun
- /ˈkaɪl/
- Specialized
:
quilo
- During digestion, chyle carries nutrients from the intestine into the bloodstream.
Examples
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After eating a fatty meal, chyle forms in the digestive system.
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Theriaca of snake may be good, or the rectum of a predatory bird macerated in chyle.
Fiction book (1991) -
The small intestine produces chyle after fats are digested.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chyle comes from the Greek root chylos, which means 'juice'. So a helpful way to remember chyle is to think of it as the 'milky juice' of digestion — a body fluid of lymph and fats made in the small intestine.
