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Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein.

Within lobules; as, the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins.

A small lobe; a lobule.

Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.

Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.

ammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.

is white, tinged with yellow. Called also White bear. See Bear. -- Polar body, cell, or globule (Biol.), a minute cell which separates by karyokinesis from the ovum during its maturation. In the maturation of ordinary ova two polar bodies are formed, but in parthogenetic ova only one. The first polar body formed is us…

bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; -- so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.

The button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and reduction of ores.

Situated under, or at the bases of, the lobules of the liver.

porous state and deposited upon cold bodies, in which case they assume the form of small globules filled with liquid.

An oxysulphide of lead occurring in implanted spherical globules of a yellowish or brownish color; -- called also voltzine.

ging 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.