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mesangial, a. Anat.|miːˈsændʒɪəl| [f. *mesangium n. + -al1.] Of or pertaining to the mesangium; spec. pertaining to or designating cells found in glomeruli of the kidney between the capillary endothelium and the basement membrane.
1941Arch. Path. XXXII. 46 Möllendorff's impression that where the mesangial tissue apposes the capillary basement membrane the two may be indistinguishable. 1951H. W. Smith Kidney i. 5 In acute glomerulonephritis, both the capillary and mesangial cells suffer inflammatory changes. 1976Edington & Gilles Path. in Tropics (ed. 2) ii. 29 We have seen haemozoin in the mesangial cells of the glomeruli in two [malaria] patients with a proliferative nephritis. 1980Sci. Amer. July 48/1 (caption) Very large [immune] complexes (A, B) tend to be disposed of by mesangial cells and circulating phagocytes. 1987Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) II. xviii. 82/1 Diffuse menangial sclerosis or focal glomerular sclerosis may be found on renal biopsy of children with congenital nephrotic syndrome. |