A glomus-like dermal microanatomical structure found in human and placed in front of, or immediately below, the tip of the coccyx. Each glomus consists of one or more arterial segments that branch into a number of glomic arterioles surrounded by rows of round, uniform, epithelioid contractile cells, that drain into a collecting venous plexus.
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Luschka's gland; coccygeal body; coccygeal gland; coccygeal glomus; gland of Luschka; glands of Luschka; glomus body