Definitions for glomerulus

glomerulus glo·mer·u·lus

Spelling: [gloh-mer-yuh-luh s, gluh-]
IPA: /gloʊˈmɛr yə ləs, glə-/

Glomerulus is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 375 anagrams from letters in glomerulus (egllmorsuu).

Definitions for glomerulus

noun

  1. a compact cluster of capillaries.
  2. 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.

Origin of glomerulus

1855-60; New Latin, equivalent to Latin glomer- (stem of glomus) ball-shaped mass + -ulus -ule

Examples for glomerulus

We have reason to think that the corpuscles and vascular channels in the glomerulus are developed in situ.

Summary of the development of the head-kidney and glomerulus.

On the inner wall of this diverticulum a projection is formed which becomes a glomerulus.

The pronephric cavity with its glomerulus is identical in structure with a malpighian body.

Each of these sacs with its contained blood vessels is called a glomerulus.

This point is, however, difficult to make sure of owing to the facility with which the glomerulus breaks away.

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