Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A double-walled, cup-shaped structure around the glomerulus of each nephron of the vertebrate kidney. It serves as a filter to remove organic wastes, excess inorganic salts, and water.
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- noun anatomy A cup-like
sac at the beginning of the tubular component of anephron in the mammaliankidney .
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- noun thin double membrane surrounding the glomerulus of a nephron
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Sir William Bowman, (1816–1892), British surgeon.]
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