[ad. L. conglobāt-us, pa. pple. of conglobā-re to gather into a globe or ball, f. con- together + globāre to make into a ball, f. glob-us ball, GLOBE.]
1. Formed or gathered into a ball, rounded, globular.
1649. Dryden, Death Ld. Hastings, 35. All, as in their sphere, Were fix’d, conglobate in his soul.
1801. Home, in Phil. Trans., XCII. 77. The kidnies are conglobate.
1845. G. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., I. 193. Arterial blood, on being whipt, allows the fibrin to separate in short conglobate masses.
1866. Treas. Bot., 320. Conglobate, collected into a ball, as the florets of Echinops.
2. Phys. Applied distinctively to glands of simple structure, esp. those of the lymphatics; opposed to CONGLOMERATE, q.v.
1665–6. Phil. Trans., I. 177. Conglobate Glanduls … contradistinguished to those that bear the name of Conglomerate Glanduls. Ibid. (1674), IX. 115. He asserts the Lympha to be a particular subtile liquor, separated into the conglobate glanduls from the Serum of the blood.
1784. Gent. Mag., LIV. II. 609. Equal to the touch in every part, except where the conglobate glands are situated.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 23/2. The lymphatic or conglobate glands compose a very important part of the absorbent system.
1876. Quain, Anat., II. 191. Lymphatic glands, named also conglobate glands.
Hence Conglobately adv., in a rounded form or manner.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio). Hence in J. and mod. Dicts.
