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renal corpuscle

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Together, the Bowmans capsule and the glomerulus comprise the definitive renal corpuscle. http://www.gudmap.org/About/Tutorial/DevMUS.html#DMK_Nephron

Term info

Label

renal corpuscle

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

definition

The structure containing the glomerular capsule and the glomerulus that serves as the initial blood-filtering component of a nephron.

depicted by

Renal:corpuscle.svg

external definition

The part of the nephron that filters blood.[TAO], A tuft of capillaries found in a Bowman's capsule in which waste products are filtered from the blood and urine formation is initiated. Paired highly vascularized structures of the pronephros, responsible for blood filtration.[XAO], A mass of arterial capillaries enveloped in a capsule and attached to a tubule in the kidney[BTO]

has exact synonym

Malphigian corpuscle, Malpighian corpuscle, corpusculum renale

has related synonym

corpusculum renis, cortical renal corpuscle, kidney corpuscle

id

UBERON:0001229

imported from

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl