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glomerulus
  1. (anatomy) A small intertwined group of capillaries within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine
  2. (anatomy) A structure in the olfactory bulb central to olfactory sensory transduction, composed of receptor neuron axons and mitral neuron dendrites and organized by odor type.
  3. Any of several other similar intertwined masses of things
  4. Examples:
    1. “Glucose normally is filtered by the glomerulus, but it is almost completely reabsorbed in the proximal tubule.”
      “Pressure of blood in the glomerulus causes fluid to filter into Bowman's capsule.”
      “The nephrotic syndrome and proteinuria in the nephrotic range localize the pathologic process to the glomerulus.”
glomerule
  1. (botany) A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.
  2. (anatomy) A glomerulus.
  3. Examples:
    1. “A Glomerule is a cyme still more compacted, so as to imitate a head.”
glomerulitis
  1. inflammation of the glomeruli of the nephron
  2. Examples:
    1. “Focal necrosis of the adrenal gland was identified, together with glomerulitis and syncytial cell formation in the kidney.”
      “Cervicitis, Dyspateunia, Epididymitis, Female lactation, Glomerulitis, Ovarian disordei.”
glomerulonephritis
  1. (medicine) A form of nephritis characterized by inflammation of the glomeruli
  2. Examples:
    1. “Acute rheumatic fever and poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis are the nonsuppurative complications of streptococcal pharyngitis.”
      “Post-infectious glomerulonephritis has also been associated with other bacterial, viral, parasitic, rickettsial and fungal infections.”
      “Leading causes of kidney failure are diabetes, followed by hypertension, glomerulonephritis, and cystic kidney and urologic diseases.”
glomerulosclerosis
  1. (medicine) A hardening of the glomerulus in the kidney.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Associated focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.”
      “The mechanism study of Cordyceps sobolifera mycelium preventing the progression of glomerulosclerosis.”
      “Mitochondrial dysfunction in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis of puromycin aminonucleoside nephrosis.”
glomerulopathy
  1. (pathology) Any disease of the renal glomeruli.
glomerulonephropathy
  1. (pathology) Any disease of the renal glomeruli
glomerulomegaly
  1. The presence of excessively large glomerules.
glomerulogenesis
  1. (biology) The formation of glomeruli
glomeruli
  1. plural form of glomerulus
  2. That which is affected by glomerular nephropathies
  3. Examples:
    1. “IgA Nepropathy progressively ruins the kidneys' filtering units, called glomeruli.”
      “In the kidney, the glomeruli show thickened capillary walls and endothelial swelling.”
      “Men's kidneys have larger glomeruli than women's and they have a greater glomerular volume.”
glomerulonephropathies
glomerulonephrites
  1. plural of glomerulonephritis
glomeruloscleroses
  1. plural of glomerulosclerosis
glomerulonephritides
  1. plural of glomerulonephritis
glomerulopathies
  1. plural of glomerulopathy
glomerulitides
  1. plural of glomerulitis
glomerules
  1. plural of glomerule
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