The structure containing the glomerular capsule and the glomerulus that serves as the initial blood-filtering component of a nephron. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 MP : 0002827 ]
This is just here as a test because I lose it
Term information
database
cross reference
- NCIT:C33456
- ZFA:0005281
- EV:0100385
- FMA:15625
- null:http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/361329009
- TAO:0005281
- EMAPA:35726
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0227635
- MA:0000376
- CALOHA:TS-1317
- BTO:0000333
- UMLS:C0227635 (ncithesaurus:Renal_Corpuscle)
- VHOG:0001262
- EMAPA:28236
- null:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal_corpuscle
Subsets
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
comment
- Together, the Bowmans capsule and the glomerulus comprise the definitive renal corpuscle. http://www.gudmap.org/About/Tutorial/DevMUS.html#DMK_Nephron
definition
- The structure containing the glomerular capsule and the glomerulus that serves as the initial blood-filtering component of a nephron.
depicted by
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/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 obo namespace
- uberon
has related synonym
- corpusculum renis
- cortical renal corpuscle
- kidney corpuscle
id
- UBERON:0001229
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