glomerulus

English

Etymology

From the diminutive of Latin glomus (“ball of yarn, ball-shaped mass”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡləˈmɛɹ.jəl.əs/

Noun

glomerulus (plural glomeruli)

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

Derived terms

• glomerular
• glomerulitis
• glomeruloid
• macroglomerulus
• microglomerulus
• protoglomerulus

Related terms

• glomerule
• glomerulate
• glomerulation
• glomerulo-/glomerul-
• conglomerate

Translations

small intertwined group of capillaries

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腎小球 / 肾小球 (zh) (shènxiǎoqiú)

• Finnish: hiussuonikeränen
• German: Nierenkörperchen (de) n
• Indonesian: glomerulus (id)
• Italian: glomerulo m
• Japanese: 糸球体 (ja) (shikyūtai)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: giloka mûlûleyan f

• Persian: کلافک (fa) (kalâfak)
• Spanish: glomérulo m

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ɡlomeˈrulus/ [ɡlo.meˈru.lʊs]
• Rhymes: -ulus
• Syllabification: glo‧me‧ru‧lus

Noun

glomerulus (plural glomerulus-glomerulus)

1. (anatomy) glomerulus

Further reading

• “glomerulus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016