Definitions | chyle |
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- a digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine
- 1922: And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, , blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine. " James Joyce, Ulysses
Etymology: Late Latin chylus, from Greek "animal or plant juice".
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