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n. - A milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats.

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  • It is difficult to explain how chyle, which is a light and almost insipid fluid, can be extracted from a mass, the color of which, and the taste, are so deeply pronounced.
  • So called from the milky look of the chyle during digestion.
  • This blood, by which the animal has life, is formed by the chyle.
  • Chylific ventricle: the true stomach in which the chyle is prepared and digestion begins.
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