Chyle

(kil.) [Gr. ckylos.] (Physiol.) A white or milky fluid in the stomach, consisting of the concentrated e ence of the chyme or the finer and more nutritious parts of the food, which is received into the lac teal ve els, a imilated into blood, and gradually converted into the different substances which constitute the animal body. It is composed, like the blood, of a fluid called liquor chyli, and of chyle globules or corpuscles, whose average size is abt. 1-4600th of an inch. See DrGESTION. [s. 187]