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renal lobe

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The portion of a kidney consisting of a renal medullary pyramid and the renal cortex above it[MP]. It is composed of many renal lobules[WP]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal_lobe ]

Term info

Label

renal lobe

Synonyms
  • kidney lobe
  • lobi renalis
  • lobus renalis
database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim

depicted by

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Kidney_PioM.png

editor note

todo - add has_part relationships.

has related synonym

lobi renales

id

UBERON:0009913

taxon notes

human kidneys have multilobar (multipyramidal) architecture while mice and rats have unilobar (unipyramidal) kidneys