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chil

chyle (the milky fluid formed from digested fat in the small intestine) /ˈkil/

noun#5773 most common

Also: intestinal lymph fluid

Example sentences

Chilul are o culoare albă.
Chyle has a white color.
Corpul produce chil după masă.
The body produces chyle after a meal.
Chilul se formează în intestinul subțire.
Chyle forms in the small intestine.
Grăsimile digerate ajung în chil înainte de a intra în sânge.
Digested fats enter the chyle before passing into the blood.
Vasele limfatice transportă chilul din intestin către canalul toracic.
The lymphatic vessels carry chyle from the intestine to the thoracic duct.
O acumulare anormală de chil în cavitatea abdominală poartă numele de ascită chiloasă.
An abnormal buildup of chyle in the abdominal cavity is called chylous ascites.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativechilchiluri
Genitivechiluluichilurilor
Accusativechilchiluri
Vocativechilchiluri

Word family

chilificarechylification, the digestive process that produces chyle
chilos / chiloasăchylous, containing or resembling chyle
chilomicronchylomicron, a fat-carrying particle found in chyle and blood
chilifer / chiliferăchyliferous, describing vessels that carry chyle

Etymology

Chil entered Romanian through French chyle, part of the wave of modern medical vocabulary borrowed from French in the 19th century. French chyle goes back to Latin chylus, which in turn comes from Greek khylos, meaning juice or sap. The word kept its narrow medical sense across all these languages: the pale fluid that forms when digested fat mixes with lymph in the gut.

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