Glomerulus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Anatomy A small cluster or mass of blood vessels or nerve fibers.
  • n. Anatomy A tuft of capillaries situated within a Bowman's capsule at the end of a renal tubule in the vertebrate kidney that filters waste products from the blood and thus initiates urine formation.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small intertwined group of capillaries within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine
  • n. Any of several other similar intertwined masses of things
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small ball, as of yarn or something resembling it. Specifically In anatomy, a capillary plexus; a conglomeration, congeries, or rete of minute vessels or nerves, or both; in particular, the vascular glomerulus of the kidney (see below).
  • n. One of the powdery masses on the surface of some lichens.
  • n. Cooke's Manual.—
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; it filters the blood during urine formation
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    capillary    capillary vessel   
    Variant
    glomeruli   
     
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