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单词 glomerule
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glomerulen.

Brit. /ˈɡlɒməruːl/, U.S. /ˈɡlɑməˌrul/
Forms: Also in modern Latin form glomerulus /ɡləʊˈmɛr(j)ʊləs/, plural glomeruli.
Etymology: < French glomérule, < modern Latin glomerulus, diminutive of glomer-, glomus ball, clue.
1. Botany.
a. A cluster or head of flowers (cf. quot. 1880).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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1882 Crombie in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 556/2 Haplogonidia..of a protococcoid form, or sometimes glomerulose.
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