glomerulus
Kelime Anlamı :
1. çiçek kümesi.
2. (glomeruli) Yumak, yumakçık (yumacık) glomerül.
3. yumakcık.
Tanımlar :
1.
anatomy A small cluster or mass of blood vessels or nerve fibers.
2. anatomy A tuft of capillaries situated within a bowman's capsule at the end of a renal tubule in the vertebrate kidney that filters waste products from the blood and thus initiates urine formation.
2. anatomy A tuft of capillaries situated within a bowman's capsule at the end of a renal tubule in the vertebrate kidney that filters waste products from the blood and thus initiates urine formation.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
A small intertwined group of capillaries within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine
2. any of several other similar intertwined masses of things
2. any of several other similar intertwined masses of things
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
the bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a malpighian capsule of the kidney.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
A small ball, as of yarn or something resembling it. specifically in anatomy, a capillary plexus; a conglomeration, congeries, or rete of minute vessels or nerves, or both; in particular, the vascular glomerulus of the kidney (see below).
2. one of the powdery masses on the surface of some lichens.
3. Cooke's manual.—
2. one of the powdery masses on the surface of some lichens.
3. Cooke's manual.—
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia