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Page: 166 humane bodies there is a threefold Concoction the first in the stomack, which is commonly called the Chyle, and hath for its excrement that which is convey'd to Colon or the great Gut; the second concoction is in the Liver, and hath for its excrement the
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675
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They consist of Bones, and Blood, and muscles, and nerves, and ligaments and Tendons, and Chile [Chyle] and a million other things, all exactly fitted for the purposes of Life and motion, and
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After but a brief experience of this seductive beverage, it may speedily be felt how, once digested and assimilated, it courses through the lymph channels and lacteal vessels and, by the familiar route of the Chyle passes into the heart, where joined with the blood of that organ, it produces a sensation of liquifaction.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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Chyle: the food-mass after it has passed through the guard and is mixed with the secretions of the salivary glands and caecal structures, ready to be assimilated.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Chyle is different from chyme in two respects: First, the alkali of the digestive fluids, poured into the duodenum, or upper part of the small intestine, neutralizes the acid of the chyme; secondly, both the bile and the pancreatic fluid seem to exert an influence over the fatty substances contained in the chyme, which assists the subdivision of these fats into minute particles.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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The Chyle flows up the middle of the backbone and reaches the heart where it meets the oxygen and is purified.
What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872
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_Chyle: _ A white juice formed from the chyme, and consisting of the finer and more nutritious parts of the food.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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_Chyle_, a white juice, formed from the chyme, and consisting of the finer and more nutritious parts of the food.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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Body, viz. the Blood, Chyle, Lymph, Gastric Juice, Bile, &c.; with the best methods of analysing them qualitatively as well its quantitatively.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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Locke's footsteps, the French had discovered that 'as the stomach secretes Chyle, so does the brain secrete Thought.'
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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