Definition of Glomeruli

1. Noun. (irregular plural of glomerulus) ¹

2. Noun. That which is affected by glomerular nephropathies ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glomeruli

1. glomerulus [n] - See also: glomerulus

Medical Definition of Glomeruli

1. Network of tiny blood vessels in the kidneys where the blood is filtered and waste products are removed. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glomeruli

glomerous
glomerulal
glomerular
glomerular capsule
glomerular crescent
glomerular filtration rate
glomerular layer of olfactory bulb
glomerular mesangium
glomerular nephritis
glomerular sclerosis
glomerulation
glomerulations
glomerule
glomerules
glomeruli (current term)
glomerulitis
glomerulonephrites
glomerulonephritic
glomerulonephritides
glomerulonephritis
glomerulopathy
glomerulosa cell
glomeruloscleroses
glomerulosclerosis
glomerulose
glomerulus
glomerulus of mesonephros
glomerulus of pronephros
glomes

Literary usage of Glomeruli

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Recent Advances in Physiology and Bio-chemistry by Leonard Hill, Benjamin Moore (1908)
"On the other hand, Grützner found that, when a 2 per ce¡ solution of gum was injected with indigo-carmine, the dye coi always be found in the glomeruli. ..."

2. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1881)
"The specialised parts containing these glomeruli being still open to the body cavity, and the glomeruli being still all distinctly attached by a common ..."

3. A Manual of Pathological Histology by Victor Cornil (1880)
"In renal atrophy following a compression which in points arrests the circulation of the blood, or in an interstitial nephritis, the glomeruli are atrophied ..."

4. A Manual of pathology by Joseph Coats (1903)
"V. Bright's disease—1. Causation. 2. Forms, (a) Parenchymatous or tubular nephritis; changes in glomeruli, epithelium, etc. ; the large white ..."

5. Textbook of human physiology by Leonard Landois, William Stirling (1889)
"The watery part of the urine, containing only easily diffusible salts, as it flows along the tubules from the glomeruli, extracts or washes out these ..."

6. A Manual of physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1895)
"The fact that in birds and serpents, whose urine is solid or semi-solid, the glomeruli are smaller than in mammals is corroborative evidence that ..."

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