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Webster 1913 Edition

Glomerulus

‖

Glo-mer′u-lus

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Glomeruli

(#)

.

[NL., dim. of L.

glomus

. See 3d

.]

(Anat.)

The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.