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GLOMERULUS
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Irregular inflected form: glomeruli
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; it filters the blood during urine formation
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("glomerulus" is a kind of...):
capillary; capillary vessel (any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules)
Holonyms ("glomerulus" is a part of...):
malpighian body; malpighian corpuscle; renal corpuscle (the capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron)
Derivation:
glomerular (of or relating to glomeruli)
Context examples:
The olfactory bulb contains several types of nerve cells including the mitral cells, on whose dendrites the olfactory nerve synapses, forming the olfactory glomeruli.
(Olfactory bulb, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Chronic form of glomerulonephritis characterized by recurring hematuria with only slight proteinuria and by deposits of IMMUNOGLOBULIN A in the mesangial areas of the renal glomeruli.
(IgA Nephropathy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
It is a hypersensitivity reaction resulting in the formation of antibodies against the pulmonary alveoli and the basement membrane of the glomeruli.
(Goodpasture Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
In Goodpasture syndrome, autoantibodies bind to collagen in the basement membranes of alveoli and glomeruli.
(Collagen IV (Alpha 3), NCI Thesaurus)
At low plasma concentration this agent is filtered by the glomeruli and almost completely cleared from the renal blood stream by active tubular secretion in a single transit through the kidney.
(Aminohippurate Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)
Though this structure was formed from several hundred glomeruli, and humans have about a million in their kidneys — this is clearly a major advance.
(Scientists Create Functioning Kidney Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Glomerulonephritis characterized by the presence of Cong-red negative microfibrils in the mesangium and capillary walls of the glomeruli.
(Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis, NCI Thesaurus)
A kidney function test that measures the fluid volume that is filtered from the kidney glomeruli to the Bowman's capsule per unit of time.
(Glomerular Filtration Rate, NCI Thesaurus)
A chronic autoimmune glomerulonephritis characterized by the deposition of immunoglobulin A in the mesangium of the glomeruli.
(IgA Nephropathy, NCI Thesaurus)
Any of a group of cells that are situated in the wall of each afferent arteriole of a kidney glomerulus near its point of entry adjacent to a macula densa and that produce and secrete renin.
(Juxtaglomerular Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
