A milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats; formed in the small intestine during digestion of ingested fats.

Roget 333: fluidity, liquidity; liquidness etc. adj.^†; gaseity etc. 334^†.    fluid, inelastic fluid; liquid, liquor; lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity^†, gravy, rheum, ichor^†, sanies^†; chyle [Med.].    solubility, solubleness^†.    [Science of liquids at rest] hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics.    ... show more

Dutch: chijl