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Glomerulus (kidney)
A
glomerulus
is a network (as a
tuft
) of
capillaries
located at the beginning of a
nephron
in the
kidney
. It serves as the first stage in the filtering process of the
blood
carried out by the nephron in its formation of
urine
.
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