glomus

Borrowed from Latin glomus

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡloʊməs/

glomus (plural glomera)

1. A fold of the mesothelium arising near the base of the mesentery in the pronephron, and containing a ball of blood vessels.
2. A highly organized vessel that connects an artery and a vein (bypassing capillaries) in an extremity such as a finger, toe, or ear or in another organ that is not part of the body's core. The glomus regulates the flow of blood, controlling temperature in order to conserve heat in the organ and, indirectly, controls the blood pressure and other functions of the circulatory system.
   • 2001 April 20, Hao Zhu & H. Franklin Bunn, “SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION: How Do Cells Sense Oxygen?”, in Science‎, volume 292, number 5516, DOI:10.1126/science.1060849, pages 449-451:

     The up-regulation of this enzyme in glomus cells of the carotid body in the neck enables the hypoxic animal to achieve a sustained increase in ventilation.

• glomus cell
• glomus tumor

• glomic
• glomus caroticum
• glomus carotideum
• glomus choroideum
• glomus coccygeum

• moguls

From Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“form into a ball; ball”). Cognate with Latin globus, glaeba and Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”).

glomus n (genitive glomeris); third declension

1. ball-shaped mass
2. ball of thread, yarn

Third declension neuter.

• glomerō
• glomerulus

• globus

• Aromanian: gljem, gljom
• French: glome
• Italian: ghiomo, gomitolo
• Romanian: ghem

• glomus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• glomus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• glomus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• glomus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette