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Renal glomerulus. a small convoluted mass of capillaries, a network of vascular tufts, encased in the malpighian or Bowman's capsule. The glomerulus is an integral part of the nephron, the basic unit of the kidney. Each nephron is capable of forming urine by itself, and each kidney has many nephrons.