What does refractile mean?
Refractile means Able to refract, refractive.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Able to refract, refractive.
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.
Stained bacilli, when examined with the polarising microscope, often show a doubly refractile cell wall (e. g., B. tuberculosis and B. anthracis).
The number of refractile, ovoid spores was determined by phase-contrast microscopy using a hemocytometer.
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.”
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Refractile means Able to refract, refractive.
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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.
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