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Definition of Conglobate
1. Verb. Assume a globular shape.
Definition of Conglobate
1. a. Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers.
2. v. t. To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together.
Definition of Conglobate
1. Adjective. shaped like or formed into a ball. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To form into a globe or ball. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conglobate
1. [v -BATED, -BATING, -BATES]
Medical Definition of Conglobate
1. Formed in a single rounded mass. Origin: L. Con-globo, pp. -atus, to gather into a globus, ball (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conglobate
Literary usage of Conglobate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1841)
"On the Uses of the conglobate Glands. By Dr. JEFFREYS. The object of this paper
was to show that these glands aided in propelling, like little hearts, ..."
2. The Hunterian Oration, Presidential Addresses, and Pathological and Surgical by Caesar Henry Hawkins (1874)
"conglobate Tumours: (a) Simple conglobate Tumours; Tumours in the Parotid
Gland ; (6) Tubercular conglobate Tumours.—6. ..."
3. Outlines of Human Physiology by Herbert Mayo (1827)
"Generally many absorbent vessels, termed vasa inferentia, enter a conglobate
gland upon the side remote from the heart, and a smaller number, ..."
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