English
glomus
Glomus comes from Latin glomus ‘ball-shaped mass’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomus‘ball-shaped mass’
- Englishearliest quotation 2001same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomus‘ball-shaped mass’
- Englishearliest quotation 2001same form
Earliest quotation: 2001, Hao Zhu, SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION: How Do Cells Sense Oxygen?: “The up-regulation of this enzyme in glomus cells of…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gel- ‘form into a ball’
children, child, cold, clean, cloud, chill, gel, cluster, jelly, globe, colt, gelatin, clout, clot, gelato, clough, ganglion, glebe, klutz, clod, globulin, globus, 47 more
through Latin glomus ‘ball-shaped mass’
Today it means
noun A fold of the mesothelium arising near the base of the mesentery in the pronephron, and containing a ball of blood vessels.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin glomus / glomus