单词 | glomus |
释义 | glomusn.ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [noun] crowna1350 knop1398 tuft?1523 coronet1555 crownet1578 head1597 seed head1597 truss1688 capitulum1704 glome1793 glomerule1793 glomus1832 flower-head1839 inflorescence1851 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 111 Suppose the flowers of a simple umbel to be deprived of their pedicels, and to be seated on a receptacle or enlarged axis, and we have a capitulum or head, named glomus by some, glomerulus by others. 1856 J. S. Henslow Dict. Bot. Terms 81 Glomus, synonyme for capitulum. 2. Anatomy. A small body consisting of a plexus of blood vessels and associated tissue. a. Applied, chiefly in modern Latin phrases, to various specific structures in the body. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [noun] > bundle or network rete mirabile?a1425 net?c1425 thrum1615 glomus1839 transverse sinus1840 tuft1848 glomerule1856 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 635/2 The former are most numerous at that part which was called by the Wenzels glomus, where the choroid plexus turns up from the inferior cornu into the horizontal portion of the lateral ventricle [of the brain]. 1897 W. N. Parker tr. R. Wiedersheim Elements Compar. Anat. (ed. 2) ix. 341 These vessels become coiled to form a rete mirabile known as the glomus. 1905 J. S. Ferguson Normal Histol. xxii. 458 The Carotid Gland. This body.., from its intimate relation to the blood vessels and nerves, is also known as the glomus caroticum. 1905 J. S. Ferguson Normal Histol. xxii. 459 The Coccygeal Gland... It is richly supplied with broad capillaries or sinusoids and hence is also known as the glomus coccygeum. 1913 Cunningham's Text-bk. Anat. (ed. 4) 1355 The glomus develops from the capillary network of the region of the tip of the embryonic tail. 1928 G. R. de Beer Vertebr. Zool. xii. 189 Capillaries grow out from the dorsal aorta forming the glomus. 1949 A. S. Romer Vertebr. Body xiii. 435 The tails of many mammals (such as dog, cat, rat) show small tissue masses, termed caudal glomeruli, which contain retia mirabilia. 1956 W. J. Hamilton Textbk. Human Anat. 315 A chemo-receptor is also present in this region [sc. the aortic arch] and constitutes the aortic body, or glomus aorticum. 1962 W. H. Hollinshead Textbk. Anat. xxiii. 823/2 Behind the upper end of the common carotid..is a flattened, somewhat ovoid body, the carotid body (glomus caroticum). This is a highly vascular epithelial body that also contains special nerve fibers. 1964 J. Mahon tr. J. G. Baer Compar. Anat. Vertebr. 153 This knot of blood vessels forms the glomus or glomerulus, where filtration of the blood occurs. 1965 R. P. Morehead Human Pathol. xxxiv. 1381/2 Tumors of the glomus tympanicum may arise in the middle ear. b. [named by P. Masson 1924, in Lyon chirurgical XXI. 257.] One of the large number of structures in the skin of the digits in which a special arrangement of muscle and nerve tissue encloses an arterio-venous anastomosis bypassing the capillaries. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [noun] > specific vein > parts or structures of specific veins penicillus1744 Penicillium1893 glomus1938 1938 Physiol. Rev. 18 234 Masson was dissatisfied with the name ‘arteriovenous anastomosis’ because of the confusion with the traumatic and other unusual connections which have received the same name. Since those in the finger often occur in the form of a group which makes a sort of ball, or skein, and since they have a morphology similar to those found in the glomus coccygeum..he adopted the term ‘glomus’... Tumors involving them he termed ‘glomus tumors’ or ‘glomic tumors’. 1950 A. W. Ham Histol. xxii. 383/1 In the skin of the fingers and toes, and in certain other sites, arteriovenous anastomoses are present in little bodies called glomi that are disposed deep in the dermis. 1962 Gray's Anat. (ed. 33) 727 The glomera play an important part in regulating body temperature. 1965 R. P. Morehead Human Pathol. xxii. 580 A glomus tumor is a benign mass of the cutaneous glomus consisting of epithelium-lined spaces surrounded by glomus cells. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1832 |
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