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- Globule - n. - A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.
- Globule - n. - A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc.
- Globule - n. - A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists.
- Globulet - n. - A little globule.
- Bubble - n. - A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
- Button - n. - A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- Embolus - n. - A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.
- Pyromorphite - n. - Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; -- so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.
- Bubble - n. - The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
- Fulguration - n. - The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick.
- Volvox - n. - A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.