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glomus

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[gloh-muhs] / ˈgloʊ məs /

noun

Anatomy.

plural

glomera, glomi

  1. a small globular body.

Etymology

Origin of glomus

1830–40; < New Latin, Latin: ball-shaped mass

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They needed only a local anesthetic, though to get at the glomus, he had to sever one of the thyroid arteries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Discovered in 1743, it is called the carotid body, or glomus caroticum*; there is one on each side of the neck.

From Time Magazine Archive

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