Usually means: Capillary network filtering blood, kidney.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word glomerulus:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. glomerulus: Merriam-Webster
  2. glomerulus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glomerulus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glomerulus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glomerulus: Vocabulary.com
  6. glomerulus: Wordnik
  7. glomerulus: Wiktionary
  8. glomerulus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. glomerulus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. glomerulus: Dictionary.com
  11. Glomerulus (cerebellum), Glomerulus (kidney), Glomerulus (olfaction), Glomerulus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Glomerulus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. glomerulus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. glomerulus: Rhymezone
  15. Glomerulus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. glomerulus: FreeDictionary.org
  17. glomerulus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. glomerulus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glomerulus (kidney), glomerulus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. glomerulus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glomerulus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Glomerulus: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Diabetes Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Glomerulus (kidney), glomerulus: Medical dictionary
  9. Glomerulus: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glomerulus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See glomeruli as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (glomerulus)

noun:  (anatomy) A small intertwined group of capillaries within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine
noun:  (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.
noun:  Any of several other similar intertwined masses of things

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