In kidney, tuft of glomerular capillaries enclosed by Bowman's capsule - the invaginated blind proximal end of the nephron.
a ball of capillaries that comprises Bowman's capsule in the human kidney.
a network of blood capillaries. For example, within the kidney the glomerulus is the site of filtration of waste products from the blood into the kidney.
Any one of the many tiny clusters of blood vessels within the kidney; they filter waste products from the blood and excrete them in the form of urine, which is transported to the bladder for elimination.
A tiny set of looping blood vessels that filter blood in the kidney. Plural: glomeruli.
a clump of capillaries covered by epithelial cells as point of origin of the nephron in the mammalian renal cortex; functions by filtering the blood and passing the filtrate to the proximal convoluted tubule. Thousands of glomeruli are present in each human kidney.
rounded mass of nerves or blood vessels, especially the microscopic tuft of capillaries surrounded by the glomerular (Bowman's) capsule of each kidney tubule
(glo mare´ yew lus) [L. glomus: ball] • Sites in the kidney where blood filtration takes place. Each glomerulus consists of a knot of capillaries served by afferent and efferent arterioles.
each nephron consists of a glomerulus( cluster of capillaries).
Tiny structure composed of blood vessels. One of several structures that make up a nephron in the kidney. See Nephron. There are about 1.25-million nephrons in each kidney that filter the blood and remove wastes.
Discrete, globular tangle of densely packed dendrites and axons found in the vertebrate olfactory bulb and in invertebrate olfactory processing centers
A ball or knot; in the kidneys, a knot of capillaries that projects into the enlarged, proximal end of a nephron; the site of filtration, the first step in the production of urine.
The main, semipermeable filter of the nephron within the Bowman's capsule. The glomerulus resembles a twisted mass of tiny tubes through which the blood passes. It allows water and soluble wastes to pass through and be excreted out of the Bowman's capsule as urine. The filtered blood passes out of the glomerulus into the efferent arteriole to be returned through the medullary plexus to the intralobular vein (citation).
a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; glomeruli filter blood during urine formation
A network of capillaries that act as a filter in the kidney.
The main filtration unit of the kidney. Each kidney is made up of thousands of these tiny tubes through which the blood passes. Water and soluble waste are filtered out as urine.
glo-MER-u-lus A ball of capillaries between the afferent arterioles and efferent arterioles in the proximal part of a nephron. 780
Microscopic part of kidney that filters blood.
Microscopic filter in the kidney which separates excess water and wastes from the blood.
A tuft of capillaries within the kidney that filters blood in order to form urine. Normally, each kidney has approximately 1 million glomeruli.
A tangle of capillaries that makes up part of the nephron; the site of Þltration.
One of the structures which comprise the nephron in the kidney. The glomerulus is composed of capillary blood vessels which are actively involved in the filtration of the blood.
a tuft of capillaries in the kidney surrounded by Bowman’s capsule
(pleural-glomeruli): Glomeruli are tiny blood vessels that form a meshwork in the kidney through which blood is strained to filter out excess water and waste products.
a tiny tuft of blood vessels that is part of the functional unit of the kidney
a tiny set of looping blood vessels in each nephron. This is where blood is filtered in the kidney.
a cluster of neurons in the olfactory bulb that receives input from olfactory receptor neurons
Part of the nephron; a tuft of capillaries
a tiny set of looping blood vessels in the kidney where the blood is filtered and waste products are removed.
A glomerulus is a capillary tuft surrounded by Bowman's capsule in nephrons of the vertebrate kidney. It receives its blood supply from an afferent arteriole of the renal circulation. Unlike most other capillary beds, the glomerulus drains into an efferent arteriole rather than a venule.
The glomerulus (plural glomeruli) in olfaction is a structure in the olfactory bulb. It is made up of a globular tangle of axons from the olfactory receptor neurons in the olfactory epithelium and dendrites from the mitral cells, tufted cells, and other cell types.