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A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded.

Without chyle.

Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of chyle.

Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.

[Chyle + -ferous: cf. F. chylifère.] (Physiol.) Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.

The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.

To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.

Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.

Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.

A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.

ntestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

; digestive. Hence the concoctive powers, with various art, Subdue the cruder aliments to chyle. J. Armstrong.

Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.

dmixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore.

o something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.

fying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.

a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause. Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle must likewise generate milk. Arbuthnot.