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globus (s) (noun), globi (pl)
1. A round or spherical body: Mary's parents asked Susi if she would like to go out to the garden and play with her red and white globus before lunch.
2. In medicine, a lump or swelling: Suddenly Tom had the sensation of a globus, or lump in his throat, and couldn't speak to his mother.l
3. In leprology, any of the brown bodies sometimes found in the granulomatous lesions of leprosy: A globus is considered to be a macrophage swelling contaning leprosy bacillis, as seen in lepromatous leprosy.
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(Latin: a round body, a ball; round, a sphere; the earth; "sphere" came from Latin globus, "round mass, sphere"; related to gleba, "clod, soil, land". Sense of "planet earth," or a three-dimensional map of it, appeared first in 1553)