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glandulae glomiformes (medicine) and peat(2) (iou)


glandulae glomiformes (medicine)


glandulae glomiformes -->
glomus


1. A small globular body.

2. A highly organised arteriolovenular anastomosis forming a tiny nodular focus in the nailbed, pads of the fingers and toes, ears, hands, and feet and many Other organs of the body. The afferent arteriole enters the connective tissue capsule of the glomus, becomes devoid of an internal elastic membrane, and develops a relatively thick epithelioid muscular wall and small lumen; the anastomosis may be branched and convoluted, richly innervated with sympathetic and myelinated nerves, and connected with a short, thin-walled vein that drains into a periglomic vein and then into one of the veins of the skin. The glomus functions as a shunt-or bypass-regulating mechanism in the flow of blood, temperature, and Conservation of heat in the part as well as in the indirect control of the blood pressure and Other functions of the circulatory system.

Synonym: glandulae glomiformes, glomiform glands, glomus body.

Synonym: glome.

Origin: L. Glomus, a ball


peat(2) (iou)



peat noun2. [pi:t] Now arch. & Scot. dial. M16.
[Origin unkn. Cf. PET noun1 & adjective.]
(A term of endearment for) a girl or woman. M16.
A proud or arrogant person. derog. L16.
A lawyer allegedly under the patronage of a particular judge. rare. L17.
? Obsolete by L17, but revived in E19 by Sir Walter Scott.
peatship noun L17.