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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The part of a nephron that includes the glomerulus and associated Bowman's capsule.
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- noun anatomy the
blood -filtering structure at the beginning of a vertebratenephron , consisting of aglomerulus and aBowman's capsule .
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- noun the capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron
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