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glomerulosa

glomerulosa is the ellipsis of zona glomerulosa.

Meaning of zona glomerulosa

Noun

zona glomerulosa

  1. The most superficial layer of the adrenal cortex, lying directly beneath the adrenal gland's capsule, and responsible for producing and secreting the mineralocorticoid aldosterone into the blood as part of the renin-angiotensin system.

Forms of glomerulosa

pluralglomerulosas

Phrases with glomerulosa

Questions about glomerulosa

What is glomerulosa the ellipsis of?
Glomerulosa is the ellipsis of zona glomerulosa.

Words near glomerulosa in the dictionary

  1. glomerulopathy
  2. glomerulopenia
  3. glomerulopodocyte
  4. glomerulopodocytes
  5. glomerulopodocytic
  6. glomerulosa
  7. glomerulosae
  8. glomerulosal
  9. glomerulosas
  10. glomeruloscleroses
  11. glomerulosclerosis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glomerulosa (page history and authors); zona glomerulosa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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