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It shows how much blood the glomeruli -- small vessels in the kidney tissue -- can filter per unit of time.

From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2024

Health care workers typically assess how well someone’s kidneys work by starting with a blood test for the glomerular filtration rate, or G.F.R., an estimate of how much blood passes through the glomeruli every minute.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2021

Martin’s glomeruli filtration rate - GFR, the rate that kidneys filter blood - fell to 41 by November 2018.

From Washington Times • Jul. 23, 2019

The kidney has about 1 million glomeruli, and in each one, hundreds of podocytes bridge the gap between the bloodstream and the urinary system.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 19, 2018

There is evidently a diffuse fibrous change which has not affected either the tubules or glomeruli to any great extent.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall