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renal lobule

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The portion of a renal lobe consisting of nephrons grouped around a single medullary ray and draining into a single collecting duct; human kidneys have multilobular, multipapillary architecture while mice and rats have unilobular, unipapillary kidneys [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_lobule ]

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renal lobule

Synonyms
  • kidney lobule
  • lobulus renalis
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pheno_slim

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Alternate definition: One of the subdivisions of the kidney, consisting of a medullary ray and that portion of the convoluted port (renal corpuscles and convoluted tubules) associated with its collecting duct. -http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?lobulus+corticalis+renalis

has related synonym

lobuli corticales renis, renal cortical lobule, cortical lobule, renculus, renunculus, cortical lobule of kidney, reniculus, lobulus corticalis renalis

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UBERON:0009914

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