'Globule' definitions:
Definition of 'globule'
From: WordNet
noun
A small globe or ball
Definition of 'Globule'
From: GCIDE
- Globule \Glob"ule\, n. [L. globulus, dim. of globus globe: cf. F. globule.]
- 1. A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form. [1913 Webster]
- Globules of snow. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- These minute globules [a mole's eyes] are sunk . . . deeply in the skull. --Paley. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Biol.) A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'globule'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- air bubble,
- antibody,
- antigen,
- arterial blood,
- ball,
- balloon,
- bladder,
- bleb,
- blister,
- blob,
- blood,
- blood bank,
- blood blister,
- blood cell,
- blood count,
- blood donor,
- blood donor center,
- blood group,
- blood grouping,
- blood picture,
- blood platelet,
- blood pressure,
- blood serum,
- blood substitute,
- bloodmobile,
- bloodstream,
- boll,
- bolus,
- bubble,
- bulb,
- bulbil,
- bulblet,
- bulla,
- circulation,
- clinical dextran,
- dextran,
- driblet,
- droplet,
- ellipsoid,
- erythrocyte,
- fever blister,
- geoid,
- globe,
- globelet,
- globoid,
- globulin,
- glomerulus,
- gob,
- gobbet,
- gore,
- grume,
- hematics,
- hematologist,
- hematology,
- hematoscope,
- hematoscopy,
- hemocyte,
- hemoglobin,
- hemometer,
- humor,
- ichor,
- isoantibody,
- knob,
- knot,
- leukocyte,
- lifeblood,
- neutrophil,
- oblate spheroid,
- opsonin,
- orb,
- orbit,
- orblet,
- pellet,
- phagocyte,
- plasma,
- plasma substitute,
- prolate spheroid,
- red corpuscle,
- Rh factor,
- Rh-negative,
- Rh-positive,
- Rh-type,
- Rhesus factor,
- rondure,
- serum,
- soap bubble,
- sphere,
- spheroid,
- spherule,
- type O,
- venous blood,
- white corpuscle