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Chyle

noun
1.
A milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats; formed in the small intestine during digestion of ingested fats.





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... appalling. It is becoming a serious ... narrow escape to-day. By some means, while I was absent, it unscrewed the stopper of the silver feeding-pipe (which I have already herein termed 'the artificial mouth'), and, in one of its curious antics, allowed all the chyle to escape from its stomach through the tube. Its hunger then became intense—I may say furious. I placed my hands upon it to push it into a chair, when, feeling my touch, it caught me, clasped me around the neck, and would have crushed me to death instantly had I not slipped from ...
— The Ape, the Idiot & Other People • W. C. Morrow
... (as classified above) are soluble in water, dilute acids and alkalies, and in saturated neutral salt solutions; they are coagulated by heat. "Serum- albumin,'' or "blood-albumin,'' possibly C450H720N116S6O140, occurs in blood-serum, lymph, chyle, milk, &c.; its coagulation temperature is about 67 deg. . It differs from egg-albumin in its specific rotation (-57 deg. to -64 deg. ), and in being slowly coagulated by alcohol and ether. Egg-albumin is ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Chyle" :   bodily fluid, body fluid, chylaceous, chylous, humor, lymph, liquid body substance, humour


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