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Definition of Glomerule
1. Noun. A compacted or sessile cyme.
Definition of Glomerule
1. n. A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.
Definition of Glomerule
1. Noun. (botany) A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood. ¹
2. Noun. (anatomy) A glomerulus. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glomerule
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Glomerule
1. A small compact cluster. Adj. Glomerulate. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glomerule
Literary usage of Glomerule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... on account of its compactness,, is named the glomerule. This is merely a cymose
inflorescence, ..."
2. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"A glomerule is a cyme still more compacted, so as to imitate a head. It may be
known from a true head by the flowers not expanding centripetally, that is, ..."
3. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1881)
"At the same time it is found, particularly when tbe ligature has been long
maintained in place, that the epithelium of the glomerule has undergone all the ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"The Spirilla gradually gather upon the surface of the clot, often in large groups
of twenty or more twisted up in & glomerule. ..."
5. The Anatomy of the Domestic Fowl by Benjamin Franklyn Kaupp (1918)
"7, Blood-vessel extending from the glomerule. 8, The vein of the medullary part
of the lobule. 9, The neck, io. The convoluted tubule, n. ..."
6. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1851)
"should likewise refer these plants, although the glomerule and the subtending
leaves are so lax, and the capitula so pedicellate from the axil of herbaceous ..."
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