chyle

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They carry a turbid, slightly yellowish fluid, called lymph, very much like blood without the red corpuscles Now, just as the chyle was not fit to be immediately taken up by the blood, but was passed through the mesenteric glands to be properly worked over, so the lymph is carried to the lymphatic glands, where it undergoes certain changes to fit it for being poured into the blood.

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  1. noun A milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fat extracted from chyme by the lacteals during digestion and passed to the bloodstream through the thoracic duct.

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  1. French, from Late Latin chȳlus, from Greek khūlos, juice; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also, formerly, chile; = French chyle = Spanish quilo = Portuguese chylo = Italian chilo, from New Latin chylus, chyle, Late Latin the extracted juice of a plant, from Greek χυλός, juice, moisture, chyle, from χείν (√*χυ), pour, connected with English gush. Cf. chyme.
 

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