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Bowman3 Anat.|ˈbəʊmən| [The name of Sir William Bowman (1816–1892), English surgeon.] Used in the possessive in Bowman's capsule: a Malpighian capsule; Bowman's glands: tubular glands in the olfactory mucous membrane; Bowman's membrane: the anterior elastic lamina (see quot. 1900).
1882D. B. Delavan in T. E. Satterthwaite Man. Histol. (ed. 2) xxii. 372 Bowman's glands, peculiar to the olfactory mucous membrane, are found in it in large numbers. 1882A. Mayer in Ibid. xiv. 206 Bowman's capsule is composed of a structureless basement-membrane surrounding each glomerulus. 1898W. H. H. Jessop Man. Ophthalmic Surgery v. 69 The anterior homogeneous membrane (Bowman's). 1900E. H. Starling Elem. Hum. Physiol. (ed. 4) x. 445 The glomerular epithelium acts simply as a filter allowing the water and salts of the blood-plasma to pass into Bowman's capsule. 1900C. H. May Man. Diseases of Eye viii. 112 Bowman's membrane is a thin, homogeneous membrane which separates the corneal epithelium from the proper substance of the cornea. 1927Haldane & Huxley Animal Biol. iv. 115 The end of the kidney tubule..is dilated to form a capsule (Bowman's Capsule). |