chyle

A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.

Noun

  1. A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
    • 1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 524, It is said that when the tidings were brought him, he was ashore sitting...
    • And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine. - 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

Origin

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

Forms

chyles

Derived

blastochyle cacochylia chylaceous chylaqueous chylic chyliferous chylific chylification chylify chylorrhœa chylosis chylous chyluria

Noun alt of, alternative

  1. Alternative form of chile (pronunciation spelling of "child")

Forms

chyles