combining form of Gr. χῡλός, CHYLE, as in chylo-serous, etc.
Hence † Chylography, a description of the lacteal vessels. Chylophorous, chyle-bearing. Chylorrhœa, a morbid overflow of chyle. Chylosis, chylification.
1784. J. Sheldon (title), The History of the Absorbent System, part the first; containing the Chylography, or Description of the Human Lacteal Vessels.
1885. W. H. Dickinson, Renal & Urin. Affect., III. xix. 1123. The pathology of cutaneous ‘chylorrhœa’ has been made the subject of further inquiry.
1879. Khory, Princ. Med., 35. Chyloserous urine is of a milky colour.
1657. Phys. Dict., Chylosis, the hurt concoction of the stomach.
