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Definition: Glomerulus |
GlomerulusNoun1. A small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; glomeruli filter blood during urine formation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Glomerulus \Glo*mer"u*lus\, noun; plural Glomeruli. [New Latin, diminutive of Latin glomus. See 3d Glome.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A tiny set of looping blood vessels in the nephron where blood is filtered in the kidney. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The glomerulus is a capillary bed found surrounded by the Bowman's capsule of the nephron in the vertebrate kidney. Blood is fed to the glomerulus through the afferent arteriole, and empties into the efferent arteriole.The difference in pressure between the afferent arteriole and efferent arteriole results in the process of ultrafiltration where soluble materials in the blood are forced out into the Bowman's capsule forming the filtrate that eventually becomes urine after being processed by the rest of the nephron.
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Crosswords: Glomerulus |
| English words defined with "glomerulus": Bowman's capsule ♦ capsula glomeruli ♦ glomerular capsule, Glomerule, Glomeruli ♦ malpighian body, malpighian corpuscle ♦ renal corpuscle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glomerulus": Glomerular Mesangium, Glomerulonephritis, Membranous, glomerulosclerosis ♦ Nephrons. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Glomerulus" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (flower cluster, glomerule). |
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Health | Each cluster is called a glomerulus, which comes from the Greek word meaning filter. (references) | |
The glomerulus is attached to the opening of a small fluid-collecting tube called a tubule. (references) | ||
Many different kinds of diseases can cause swelling or scarring of the nephron or glomerulus. (references) | ||
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| "Glomerulus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glomerulus" is used about 4 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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Expression using "glomerulus": Kidney Glomerulus. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
glomerulus | 24 |
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| Language | Translations for "glomerulus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | glomerulus. (various references) | |
Dutch | glomerulus. (various references) | |
French | glomérule (glomerule). (various references) | |
German | Glomerulus, Glomerulum. (various references) | |
Greek | σπείραμα, αγγειακό σπείραμα του νεφρού. (various references) | |
Korean | 사구체 (Glomeruli). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omerulusglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glomérulo (glomerate, glomeriform, glomiform). (various references) | |
Spanish | glomérulo (cluster, glomerate, glomeriform, glomerule, glomiform). (various references) | |
Thai | กลุ่มเส้นโลหิตฝอยที่ไต. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "glomerulus" (pronounced 'Glo*mer"u*lus'): Abaculus, AEolus, Alto-cumulus, Alveolus, Angelus, Annulus, Articulus, Asilus, Astragalus, Bacillus, Baetulus, Bolus, Bucephalus, Callus, Canaliculus, Carolus, Cauliculus, Clitellus, Crotalus, Cucullus, Embolus, Flocculus, funiculus, Gladiolus, hilus, homunculus, hydrocephalus, Lienculus, Limulus, loculus, Malleolus, modiolus, modulus, Monomphalus, Nautilus, Nucellus, Nucleolus, Obelus, Obolus, Ocellus, Oculus, Overplus, Palulus, Palus, Paxillus, Pediculus, Peplus, Pessulus, Phacellus, Phallus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-l-l-m-o-r-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: rugulose. | |
-3 letters: emulous, grumose, grumous, morgues, mullers, regulus. | |
-4 letters: erugos, glomus, gluers, glumes, golems, grouse, gruels, grumes, lemurs, lugers, moguls, morels, morgue, morsel, mouser, muller, oglers, oleums, rogues, rouges, rugose, rugous, solgel, ugsome. | |
-5 letters: erugo, euros, germs, geums, gloms, gluer, glues, glume, goers, golem, gores, gorse, gruel, grues, grume, gules, gulls, gurus, lemur, loges. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-l-l-m-o-r-s-u-u" | |
+4 letters: multireligious. | |
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