单词 | glomerule |
释义 | glomerulen. 1. Botany. a. A cluster or head of flowers (cf. quot. 1880). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [noun] crowna1350 knop1398 tuft?1523 coronet1555 crownet1578 head1597 seed head1597 truss1688 capitulum1704 glome1793 glomerule1793 glomus1832 flower-head1839 inflorescence1851 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. I4v Glomerulus, a Glomerule, or small glome. 1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. 397 Amaranthus. Glomerules lateral. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iv. 212 The Glomerule..is a cyme which consists of a number of sessile flowers. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. v. 152 One form of the regular cyme, on account of its compactness, is named the Glomerule. This is merely a cymose inflorescence, of any sort, which is condensed into the form of a head, or approaching it. b. A soredium. ΚΠ 1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. (at cited word) Glomerules are also the heaps of powdery bodies which lie upon the surface of the thallus of lichens; these are also called soredia. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 535/1 Glomeruli. 2. A compact cluster of small organisms, animal tissues, etc.; esp. a group or plexus of capillary blood vessels, as those in the Malpighian corpuscles of the kidney. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [noun] > bundle or network rete mirabile?a1425 net?c1425 thrum1615 glomus1839 transverse sinus1840 tuft1848 glomerule1856 1856 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 6) III. 325 The Malpighian corpuscles.—These small red bodies or glomeruli, discovered by Malpighi. 1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 245 A convoluted mass of blood-vessels, which constitutes the true glandule, corpuscle, or glomerule of Malpighi. 1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) v. 108 A bunch of looped Capillaries, called a glomerulus. 1874 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. 102 What are called glomeruli or granule-cells. 1885 C. S. Dolley Technol. Bacteria Invest. 220 The Spirilla gradually gather upon the surface of the clot, often in large groups of twenty or more twisted up in a glomerule. Derivatives gloˌmeruˈlitis n. (see quot. 1885). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > disorders of kidneys > inflammation nefresiea1398 nephritis1566 pyelitis1839 perinephritis1842 paranephritis1848 nephropyelitis1876 glomerular nephritis1885 glomerulitis1885 nephrotyphoid1896 1885 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Glomerulitis, inflammation of the glomeruli of Malpighi and their capsule. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 983 In the more chronic cases [of lead poisoning in rabbits] there was a glomerulitis followed by thickening of the vessels and interstitial nephritis. gloˈmerulose adj. gathered in small clusters. ΚΠ 1882 Crombie in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 556/2 Haplogonidia..of a protococcoid form, or sometimes glomerulose. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1793 |
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