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glomerulus


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Glomerulus  \Glo*mer"u*lus\,  n.;  pl  {Glomeruli}.  [NL.,  dim.  of 
  L.  glomus  See  3d  {Glome}.]  (Anat.) 
  The  bunch  of  looped  capillary  blood  vessels  in  a  Malpighian 
  capsule  of  the  kidney. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  glomerulus 
  n  :  a  small  intertwined  group  of  capillaries  in  the  malpighian 
  body 




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