Sheeza Basharatabout 3 years ago

Glomerulus

The glomerulus is the filtering unit of the kidney and is composed of a network of capillaries and highly differentiated epithelial cells, the podocytes, which regulate selective filtration of blood into an ultrafiltrate that will become ultimately urine. The glomerulus in the kidney was so named by the Italian anatomist Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694). The structure was once called a malphigian corpuscle. "Glomerulus" is the diminutive of the Latin "glomus" meaning "ball of yarn." It is literally a "little ball of yarn." Plural: glomeruli.