(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.
Digestive
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
(n.) That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
(n.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.
(n.) A tonic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) The neurologic or digestive signs were present in 12% of the children.
(3) Lp(a) also complexes to plasmin-fibrinogen digests, and binding increases in proportion to the time of plasmin-induced fibrinogen degradation.
(4) To determine whether or not the glycan moieties in hTPO play a role in the disease-associated epitopes in Hashimoto's thyroiditis, radiolabeled recombinant hTPO was immunoprecipitated after digestion with N-glycanase.
(5) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(6) This suggests that a physiological mechanism exists which can increase the barrier pressure to gastrooesophageal reflux during periods of active secretion of the stomach, as occurs in digestion.
(7) Under milder trypsin digestion conditions three resistant fragments were produced from the free protein.
(8) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
(9) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
(10) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(11) Digestion of cytoplasmic components of horny cells was observed by electron microscopy, but both cell membranes and desmosomes remained intact.
(12) Therefore, we conclude this is a bovine DR beta-like pseudogene, BoDR beta I. Exon-containing regions have been used as probes in Southern blot analyses of bovine genomic DNA digested with EcoRI.
(13) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(14) Between the 24th and 29th day mature daughter sporocysts with fully developed cercariae ready to emerge, or already emerged, could be seen in the digestive gland of the snail.
(15) Amino acid analysis indicated a significant number of serine amino acids: N-terminal sequence data demonstrated a high level of homology; and trypsin digestion followed by reversed-phase HPLC indicated the possibility of multiple phosphorylation sites.
(16) Radio-immunoprecipitation and partial proteolytic digest mapping showed that the monoclonal antibodies each recognized a unique epitope.
(17) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
(18) Since the gastric motor pattern consisted of two major subpatterns, digestive and interdigestive motor activity, motilin was tested for its motor stimulating activity in both states.
(19) The product (AF-AGIIb-1) of digestion of AGIIb-1 with exo-alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase had markedly increased anti-complementary activity, as did that (AF-N-I) of N-I.
(20) The digestion products were separated by electrophoresis in agarose gels.