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Definition of Refractile

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or capable of refraction. "The refractive characteristics of the eye"

Definition of Refractile

1. Adjective. Able to refract, refractive ¹

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Definition of Refractile

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Refractile

1. Adjective usually used in describing granules within cells that scatter (refract) light. Not to be confused with refractory. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Refractile

Literary usage of Refractile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1874)
"These refractile cells are, as has already been noticed, imbedded in a tissue of ... The refractile cells are not invariably confined to the layer above the ..."

2. Transactions of the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and (1913)
"In a fatal case I found that large trophozoites deep in the submucosa in the floors of ulcers were very slightly refractile, while many of the smaller ..."

3. Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States by Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Meeting (1904)
"The refractile bodies apparently had a slow amoeboid motion. Moving in the plasma were similar irregular shaped, refractile bodies of different sizes and ..."

4. Publications by Bureau of Government Laboratories, Philippines, Department of the Interior (1905)
"In addition there was a short, refractile, needle-like process, which was seen to be projected and withdrawn. A few minutes later, when the movements had ..."

5. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1897)
"I am convinced that the chromatin of the fibrils is a doubly refractile fluid substance ; that the tissue of Bowman's elements is also doubly refractile, ..."

6. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1902)
"In further support of this, many of these highly refractile bodies, ... Petrone considers that these refractile bodies represent the nuclei of the red cells ..."

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