noun
definition
A small round particle of substance; a drop.
Examples of globule in a Sentence
The liver cells are seen to contain a large globule of fat which pushes the cell nucleus to one side - giving the signet-ring appearance.
The heat is sufficient to keep the resulting lead oxide fused, and the porous cupel has the property of absorbing melted lead oxide without taking up any of the metallic globule, exactly in the same way that blottingpaper will absorb water whilst it will not touch a globule of mercury.
I can trace my family back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
The remaining litharge was absorbed by the porous cupel, leaving a globule of metallic silver about 99.9% pure.
Each female can produce up to half a million tiny eggs, each containing a globule of oil that makes the egg buoyant.
The rest of the litharge was absorbed in the porous cupel, leaving a shining globule of metallic silver about 99.95% pure.
The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.
It may be a gas bubble, a blood clot, a fat globule, a mass of bacteria, or other foreign body that forms somewhere else and travels through the circulatory system until it gets stuck.
They resemble those of the sprat and pilchard in having a segmented yolk and there is no oil globule.
A metallic globule with or without an incrustation may be obtained.
The heat being continued, and the current of air always passing over the surface of the melted lead button, and the lead oxide being sucked up by the cupel as fast as it is formed, the metallic globule rapidly diminishes in size until at last all the lead has been got rid of.