Chyle

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Chylus or Chylos (from Greek χυλός chylós "juice") is

  • the name for a milky sap ( milky sap )
  • a term for fatty lymph from the digestive tract
  • Term from the outdated digestion theory of Galen, which describes a digestive product (a kind of chyme) prepared from food by the gastrointestinal tract.