glomerulus
Americannoun
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glomeruli
plural
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a compact cluster of capillaries.
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Also called Malpighian tuft. a tuft of convoluted capillaries in the nephron of a kidney, functioning to remove certain substances from the blood before it flows into the convoluted tubule.
noun
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a knot of blood vessels in the kidney projecting into the capsular end of a urine-secreting tubule
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any cluster or coil of blood vessels, nerve fibres, etc, in the body
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glomeruli
plural
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Etymology
Origin of glomerulus
1855–60; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin glomer- (stem of glomus ) ball-shaped mass + -ulus -ule
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Once the efferent arteriole exits the glomerulus, it forms the peritubular capillary network, which surrounds and interacts with parts of the renal tubule.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The capillaries deliver blood to the glomerulus and run perpendicular to the distal convoluted tubule.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
First, the nephrons filter blood that runs through the capillary network in the glomerulus, which filters out almost all solutes, except for uric acid, by glomerular filtration.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The branch that exits the glomerulus is called the efferent arteriole.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
First, the nephrons filter blood that runs through the capillary network in the glomerulus.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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
From glomeruli, olfactory signals travel directly to the olfactory cortex and then to the frontal cortex and the thalamus.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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
Microscopically, it is seen that the tubules are atrophied, the Bowman's capsules are, as a rule, thickened, and the glomeruli are shrunken or have been replaced by fibrous tissue.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
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