glob'ule. 1

A small spherical body. 2. In pharmacy, a small pill; also a globular gelatin capsule for the administration of volatile liquids, sometimes called a pearl. blood g's. See red blood corpuscle, under blood corpuscle, chyle g's. See lymphatic corpuscle, under corpuscle. cleavage g. See segmentation cell, under cell, colloid g's. See amylaceous corpuscles, under corpuscle, colostrum g's. See colostrum corpuscles, under corpuscle, cytoid g's. See leukocyte. dentin g's. Small globular ma es of dentin between the inter globular spaces of the peripheral dentin. directing g., directive g., extrusion g. Syn.: areal corpuscle, polar body, polar g. A minute globular or rounded, transparent ma , consisting of a part of the germinal vesicle and a small amount of vitellus that is extruded or expelled from a maturing ovum into the lacuna (in nearly every case before impregnation), and lying within the zona pellucid a, near the segmentation spheres, in the early stage of the proce of total segmentation of the vitellus. This body is of the morphological value of a cell, and may subdivide after extrusion, lymph g. See lymphatic corpuscle, under corpuscle. polar g. See extrusion g. transparent g. See extrusion g. [Lat., globulus, dim. of globus, ball.]