the structure containing the glomerular capsule and the glomerulus that serves as the initial blood-filtering component of a nephron [ MP:0002827 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 ]
Synonyms: Malphigian corpuscle Malpighian corpuscle corpusculum renale
Term information
- FMA:15625
- null:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal_corpuscle
- UMLS:C0227635 (ncithesaurus:Renal_Corpuscle)
- TAO:0005281
- NCIT:C33456
- EV:0100385
- EMAPA:35726
- null:http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/361329009
- EMAPA:28236
- CALOHA:TS-1317
- MA:0000376
- VHOG:0001262
- BTO:0000333
- ZFA:0005281
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0227635
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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
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]
Term relations
- organ subunit
- contributes to morphology of some nephron
- part of some cortex of kidney
- contributes to morphology of some cortex of kidney
- part of some nephron