Circles. Use these images for visualization and presentation of different aspects of immunoglobulins.

People occassionally confuse the schematic pictographic conventions used to depict antibodies and related objects with the globs they are meant to represent. We take this opportunity to help understand the distinctions between the two. Circles are useful. Circles can be used to create both lymphocytes and antibodies.

Definitions.
Occasionally blobs are confused with globs. Occasionally globular, globs, globules and globulins are not clearly understood as well. Our unabashed dictionary defines blob as: a globule of liquid; bubble; a small lump, drop, splotch or daub. Our unabashed dictionary defines glob as: a drop or globule of a liquid; a usually rounded quantity or lump of some plastic or moldable substance. Our unabashed dictionary defines globule as: a small spherical body. Our unabashed dictionary defines globular as: globe-shaped; spherical. Our unabashed dictionary defines globulin as: n. Biochem. any of a group of proteins, insoluble in pure water but soluble in dilute salty water, and coagulable by heat.

The object in this image fits the definition of both glob and globulin. This is an image of a computer generated model of the Fv fragment of IgG. There is a light chain with two distinct domains left and right, separated in the middle by a space and colored green. There is a heavy chain fragment in the foreground colored light blue with two distinct domains left and right, separated in the middle.

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