(n.) A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.
Example Sentences:
(1) After accidental dissection of the thoracic duct in infants, leakage of chyle could be sealed successfully in 6 cases.
(2) Initial conservative management consisted of intermittent positive pressure ventilation, drainage of chylous fluid and enteral feeding, but there was no diminution in loss of chyle.
(3) From the clinical course it may be assumed that the chyle drainage was impaired in the thoracic duct or in a minor lymphatic vessel by subclinical injury, whereby the damage obviously was small, capable of spontaneous closure and healing.
(4) Despite the chronic loss of chyle in the urine these 3 patients did not have significant complications during the period of observation.
(5) Several therapeutic pathways are possible for the treatment of this complication (paracentesis, reinfusion of chyle, diuretics, total parenteral hyperalimentation, medium-chain triglyceride diet, peritoneovenous shunt, operative closure) and the choice results in an association which is specific for each patient.
(6) While technically challenging, the vein conduit worked well in delivering chyle to the oral cavity.
(7) It was found that lymphocytes cultured in the medium containing chyle were remarkably suppressed in responding to phytohemagglutinin as compared with the control culture without the fluid.
(8) Nineteen liters of chyle were excreted over a 5-week period.
(9) All of these patients' cases were associated with a concurrent external chylous fistula, as evidenced by the appearance of a milky fluid confirmed to be chyle by chemical determination.
(10) Of particular interest was the detection of an appreciable amount of medium-chain fatty acids in the chyle triglyceride, constituting 20% of the triglyceride fatty acids when an enteral formulation with medium-chain triglyceride as a sole fat source was administered.
(11) Neutral lipase failed to exhibit activity in assay systems specific for lipoprotein lipase, monoolein hydrolase, tributyrinase, and methyl butyrate esterase and showed little or no capacity to hydrolyze chyle chylomicrons or plasma very low density lipoproteins.
(12) Mesenteric portal venous blood and chyle, respectively, were collected continuously for 1 and 6 h after the infusions.
(13) During the following MCT diet a pronounced increase in triglyceride and total fatty acids concentrations appeared and the chylomicrons reappeared in the chyle.
(14) The small pedicle entered the upper pole of cyst was found at surgery and the cyst contained chyle about 300 ml.
(15) This caused lymph protein concentration to increase while chyle concentration (measured by absorbance) decreased.
(16) After excision of the cyst, the chyle was analyzed with special reference to its protein and lipid content.
(17) If significant chyle losses persist after 2 weeks, surgery is indicated, as immunological factors may complicate recovery.
(18) The metabolism of native chyle labeled with [3H]cholesterol and [14C]linoleic acid or of preformed chylomicron remnants with the same labeling was studied in the groups of rats.
(19) Our investigations have established that the following diseases are produced by malformation of the lymphatics of the small intestine: protein losing enteropathy, chyloperitoneum, chyluria, lymphedema with chyle reflux, chylothorax, chylopericardium, chyle reflux in the pulmonary lymphatics, hypoproteinemia and food allergies.
(20) After a dose of 50 g liquid paraffin administered as a laxative, 246 ml chyle was collected within the following 14 h which yielded a total of 4.5 mg liquid paraffin.
Chyme
Definition:
(n.) The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diversion of chyme increased the gastric secretory response, which suggests that the distal small intestine has an inhibitory role in postprandial gastric secretion.
(2) Patients who have an interruption of the small bowel with a high enterostomy usually need parenteral supply or reinfusion of chyme to maintain nutritional and electrolytic balances before restoring intestinal continuity.
(3) The concentration of chyme ingredients and volumetric velocity of the chyme transfer from the duodenum to the jejunum were investigated in experiments on normal preoperated dogs with fistulas implanted into the stomach, duodenum and jejunum after feeding different diets throughout the entire process of active digestion.
(4) This effect is dependent on the presence of jejunal chyme: after gastrocolic fistulae, the jejunum to colon grafts lost jejunal functional activities.
(5) Chronic experiment on these dogs has revealed that this operation: has no effect on frequency and amplitude of intestine contractions during the first phase of the digestive process but it is accompanied by significant relaxation of the motor intestine activity in the second phase, causes a retardation of the rate of evacuation from stomach by 56.0% in dogs subjected to extragastric vagotomy as well as pH of chyme in the duodenum by 1-1.5 units above the norm.
(6) The Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy is useful for patients with dumping, because it slows gastric emptying and the transit of chyme through the Roux limb.
(7) These inquiline species are not immunogenic, or at least only slightly so, since they do not feed upon the host itself but upon its intestinal chyme.
(8) ATPase activity was therefore essential for folate transport at the pH of the intestinal chyme.
(9) The optimal conditions of nutrient assimilation were revealed, using highly caloric mixtures with basic nutrient content and poly-, oligo- and monomer rations proportional to chyme.
(10) Thus, we demonstrated that in healthy subjects, ileocolonic transfer of chyme occurs in boluses; this transfer is impaired in patients with myopathic pseudo-obstruction.
(11) The mucosa of excised pieces of jejunum of fasting rats was exposed for 10 min to fresh chyme obtained from other rats which had been digesting either buttered bread or bread alone.
(12) Improvement of fat malabsorption is attained by using a pancreatic enzyme supplement consisting of pH-sensitive, enteric-coated microspheres (microsphere preparations) that prevent enzyme degradation in the stomach and travel with the chyme to the small intestine.
(13) The possibility of ascertaining the chyme flow directly (by total collection) or indirectly (with an inert marker) is described.
(14) Gradual increase in concentration of the main NSs occurs in the advancing chyme.
(15) Trypsin outputs were similar whether or not jejunal chyme was diverted.
(16) The content of pepsinogen in the gastric mucosa and acid phosphatase activity in the gastric chyme are adaptively altered in animals with change from natural to artificial feeding.
(17) The percent of fed spheres and fed 99mTc-labeled liver in each collection was counted, and liquid chyme was returned to the distal duodenum.
(18) In the complete chyme as well as in all fractions the crude protein and amino acid contents were determined.
(19) For the rats with 30 cm crossed segments, the rat that lost intestinal chyme into its partner ate 3.6 times as much food as did its partner for a period of many months.
(20) The carbohydrates of peas did not affect the ileal digestibility of protein, although the ileal chyme was more loose.