GLOB'ULE, noun [Latin globulus, dim. of globus.] A little globe; a small particle of matter of a spherical form; a word particularly applied to the red particles of blood, which swim in a transparent serum, and may be discovered by the microscope. Hail stones have opake globules of snow in their center.
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