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This is the process by which the chyle is converted into arterial blood, and the venous blood purified of its excess of carbon and hydrogen.— A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
Animal food supplies chyle much more abundantly than vegetable food does; and this chyle is more stimulating in its nature.— A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
Besides these delicacies, there was a pudding, or dessert, of preserved crowberries, mixed with "chyle" from the maw of the reindeer, with train oil for sauce See note Gradually, as appetite was satisfied, tongues were loosened, and information about the wonderful foreigner, which had been fragmentary at first, flowed in a copious stream.— Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
While the chyle is propelled along the small intestine by the peristaltic action, the matter which it contains in solution is absorbed in the usual manner into the vessels of the villi by the process called osmosis_.— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
The blood, chyle, and lymph, are then transmitted directly to the lungs The process of nutrition aids in the development and growth of the body; hence it has been aptly designated a "perpetual reproduction."— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand

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