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Glomeruli filter blood during urine formation
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glomerulus
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A glomerulus ( RP , American ) is a network (as a tuft ) of capillaries located at the beginning of a nephron in the kidney . It serves as the first stage in the filtering process of the blood carried out by the nephron in its formation of urine . The glomerulus ...
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n. a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; glomeruli filter blood during urine formation [also: glomeruli (pl)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) A small intertwined group of capillary within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine 2 Any of several other similar intertwined masses of things
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Usage examples of glomerulus.
In chronic glomerulonephritis, for example, a much clearer insight will be needed into the events leading to the destruction of glomeruli by the immunologic reactants that now appear to govern this disease, before one will know how to intervene intelligently to prevent the process, or turn it around.
So your system made antibodies against your own glomeruli, and systematically took them out.