any structural anomaly of the large plasma membrane-lined circular pores that perforate the flattened glomerular endothelium and, unlike those of other fenestrated capillaries, are not spanned by diaphragms; the density and size of glomerular fenestrae account, at least in part, for the high permeability of the glomerular capillary wall to water and small solutes
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