Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Chyle

Chyle , noun

[New Latin chylus, Greek {not transcribed} juice, chyle, from {not transcribed} to pour: compare French chyle; prob. akin to English fuse to melt.]

(Physiology) 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.