Refractile

Quick meaning: Refractile is an adjective meaning Able to refract, refractive.

Meaning

Able to refract, refractive.

Example Sentences

The number of refractile, ovoid spores was determined by phase-contrast microscopy using a hemocytometer.

Stained bacilli, when examined with the polarising microscope, often show a doubly refractile cell wall (e. g., B. tuberculosis and B. anthracis).

As the colony increases, the granular character becomes more marked, until it seems to be made up of highly refractile granules, like a mass of particles of glass.

He watched daily through the microscope for characteristic signs of viral infection, and eventually saw what he later described as a “peculiar rounding of scattered cells with refractile bodies in the cytoplasm and nucleus.”

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include refractable, refringent, refrangible, diffractable, diffrangible, reflectable.

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