| 释义 |
glomerulus
—glomerular, adj.
/gloh mer"yeuh leuhs, gleuh-/, n. , pl. glomeruli /-luy'/. Anat.
1. a compact cluster of capillaries.
2. Also 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.
[1855-60; < NL, equiv. to L glomer- (s. of glomus) ball-shaped mass + -ulus -ULE] |