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Definition: Glomerular |
GlomerularAdjective1. Of or relating to glomeruli. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Pertaining to or of the nature of a glomerulus, especially a renal glomerulus. (references) |
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Crosswords: Glomerular |
| Specialty definitions using "glomerular": creatinine clearance ♦ Fanconi Syndrome ♦ Glomerular Filtration Rate, Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative, Glomerulonephritis, Membranous, Glomerulosclerosis, Focal ♦ Juxtaglomerular Apparatus ♦ Kidney Failure, Acute ♦ Nephrosis, Lipoid, Nitrendipine ♦ Periodic Acid-Schiff Reaction. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Glomerular" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (glomerular). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A number of different diseases can result in glomerular disease. (references) | |
HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, can also cause glomerular disease. (references) | ||
A biopsy may be helpful in confirming glomerular disease and identifying the cause. (references) | ||
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| "Glomerular" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glomerular" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 28 | 65,706 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "glomerular": glomerular capsule ♦ Glomerular Filtration Rate ♦ Glomerular Mesangium. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "glomerular": Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "glomerular"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | glomerulær, glomerulær. (various references) | |
Dutch | glomerulair (glomerate, glomeriform, glomiform). (various references) | |
French | glomérulaire, glomérulaire. (various references) | |
German | glomerularis, glomerulär, glomerulär. (various references) | |
Greek | σπειραματικός, εσπειραμένος. (various references) | |
Italian | glomerulare. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omerularglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glomerular. (various references) | |
Spanish | glomerular. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-l-m-o-r-r-u" | |
-3 letters: allegro, allurer, glamour, glomera, gomeral, morulae, morular, moulage, regular. | |
-4 letters: aerugo, allure, arguer, armour, armure, galore, gaoler, glamor, larger, laurel, loreal, malgre, mauger, maugre, mauler, morale, morgue, morula, muller, remora, reroll, roamer, roller, rugola, ullage. | |
-5 letters: algor, algum, almug, amole, amour, argle, argol, argue, armer, armor, auger, erugo, gamer, glare, gleam, gloam, gluer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-l-m-o-r-r-u" | |
+4 letters: pyrometallurgy. | |
+5 letters: hydrometallurgy. | |
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