Definition for Glomerular filtration

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Glomerular filtration is the first step in urine formation. You see, in order to clean out the blood, you have to have a way of accessing it. And what we clean out is the plasma (not the cells). So, in glomerular filtration, a lot of the blood plasma spills out into the glomerular capsule.