glomerule

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glom·er·ule

(glŏm′ə-ro͞ol′, glŏm′yə-)

1. Botany A dense compact cluster of flowers.

2. Anatomy A glomerulus.

[New Latin glomerulus; see glomerulus.]

glo·mer′u·late (glō-mĕr′yə-lĭt) adj.

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glomerule

(ˈɡlɒməˌruːl)

1. (Botany) a cymose inflorescence in the form of a ball-like cluster of flowers

2. (Botany) a ball-like cluster of spores

[C18: from New Latin glomerulus]

glomerulate adj

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glom•er•ule

(ˈglɒm əˌrul)

n.

a cyme condensed into a headlike cluster.

[1785–95; < New Latin glomerulus glomerulus]

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glomerule - a compacted or sessile cyme

cyme - more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first

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Proteins with lower molecular weights such as [beta]-2 microglobulin, and lysosome easily pass through glomerule, but due to sufficient tubular reabsorption, these proteins are also found in very small amounts in urine [27,28].

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Inflorescence are glomerule type and axillar, with 2.5 to 3 cm diameter, bract measure 1.5 x 0.8 cm, are ovate, acute, tomentose, green-cinereous; bracteole are ovate, acute, with 1.3 x 0.4 cm, peduncle are 1-3 cm long.

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The morphology of the PAS stained structures of the renal glomerule was evaluated by the number of mesangial cells; the state of the basal membrane of the glomerulari capilaris; the mesangial extracellular matrix; continuity of basal membrane of renal glomerule and parietal cells.

Gentamicin induces renal morphopathology in Wistar rats/ Gentamicina induce morfopatologia renal en ratas Wistar

Glomerule images were projected on white sulfite paper and their contours drawn with a black, No 2 pencil.

Effects of aspartame on fetal kidney: a morphometric and stereological study/Efectos del aspartame en el rinon fetal: estudios morfometrico y estereologico

The first type is characterized by very strong apical dominance; only the erect primary axis bears flowers (with only a few axillary glomerule inflorescences in the subterminal part).

Geographical variation and successive adaptive radiations of yellow-flowered Teucrium (Labiatae) in the mediterranean region

Ces maladies sont responsables de lesions des petites arteres qui detruisent les glomerules renaux et alterentle fonctionnement des reins.C'est pourquoi il est important de depister precocement la maladie renale chez ces personnes car une prise en charge precoce en ralentit la progression.

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Therefore, it is unlikely that it is filtered by glomerules under normal conditions.

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Renal biopsy revealed "active diffuse global proliferative lupus nephritis (activity index: 11)" (Pathological evaluation: 13 glomerules were found on microscopic examination, sclerotic gomerulus was absent.