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单词 glomerulus
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
glo•mer•u•lus  (glō meryə ləs, glə-),USA pronunciation n., pl. -li (-lī′).USA pronunciation [Anat.]
  1. Anatomya compact cluster of capillaries.
  2. AnatomyAlso called Malpighian tuft. a tuft of convoluted capillaries in the nephron of a kidney, functioning to remove certain substances from the blood before it flows into the convoluted tubule. Cf. Bowman's capsule, Malpighian corpuscle.
  • Neo-Latin, equivalent. to Latin glomer- (stem of glomus) ball-shaped mass + -ulus -ule
  • 1855–60
glo•meru•lar, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
glomerulus /ɡlɒˈmɛrʊləs/ n ( pl -li / -ˌlaɪ/)
  1. a knot of blood vessels in the kidney projecting into the capsular end of a urine-secreting tubule
  2. any cluster or coil of blood vessels, nerve fibres, etc, in the body
Etymology: 18th Century: from New Latin, diminutive of glomus ball

gloˈmerular adj
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