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Definition of Glomus
1. a type of vascular tuft [n -MERA]
Medical Definition of Glomus
1. 1. A small globular body. 2. A highly organised arteriolovenular anastomosis forming a tiny nodular focus in the nailbed, pads of the fingers and toes, ears, hands, and feet and many other organs of the body. The afferent arteriole enters the connective tissue capsule of the glomus, becomes devoid of an internal elastic membrane, and develops a relatively thick epithelioid muscular wall and small lumen; the anastomosis may be branched and convoluted, richly innervated with sympathetic and myelinated nerves, and connected with a short, thin-walled vein that drains into a periglomic vein and then into one of the veins of the skin. The glomus functions as a shunt-or bypass-regulating mechanism in the flow of blood, temperature, and conservation of heat in the part as well as in the indirect control of the blood pressure and other functions of the circulatory system. Synonym: glandulae glomiformes, glomiform glands, glomus body. Synonym: glome. Origin: L. Glomus, a ball (05 Mar 2000)
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Literary usage of Glomus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (1918)
"Section of part of human glomus caroticum. (Schaper.) Highly magnified.
Numerous bloodvessels are seen in ... Section of an irregular nodule of the glomus ..."
2. A Text-book of histology by Alexander A.. Böhm, M. von Davidoff, Gotthelf Carl Huber (1900)
"... known as the carotid gland or the glomus caroticum. It is imbedded in connective
tissue, surrounded by many nerve-fibers, and on account of its great ..."
3. Cloacal Morphology in Its Relation to Genito-urinary and Rectal Diseasesby Benjamin Merrill Ricketts by Benjamin Merrill Ricketts (1916)
"Carcinomata may be primary or secondary, more often primary, because the glomus
is so generally exposed when upon the tip of the coccyx, its normal position ..."
4. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"It glomus, a clew or bottom of thread, a ball, pellet, or other like round
thing."—Som. As the clue unwoven will serve for a guide, Beau. ..."
5. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"glomus TUMOUR IN A DOG By AG FERRI AND EA MATERA Department of Histology and
Embryology and Department of Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ..."
6. An Etymological Dictionary of the Latin Language by Francis Edward Jackson Valpy (1828)
"Isaac Vossius: " Turba and turnia, as Globus and glomus."1 Turns, a tower; a
moveable tower used in besieging cities. Fr. ríg<ft¡, Tuppi;. ..."
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