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 ]
Term information
- MA:0000376
- BTO:0000333
- VHOG:0001262
- SCTID:361329009
- UMLS:C0227635 (ncithesaurus:Renal_Corpuscle)
- EV:0100385
- EMAPA:35726
- EMAPA:28236
- CALOHA:TS-1317
- Wikipedia:Renal_corpuscle
- FMA:15625
- TAO:0005281
- NCIT:C33456
- ZFA:0005281
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
Together, the Bowmans capsule and the glomerulus comprise the definitive renal corpuscle. http://www.gudmap.org/About/Tutorial/DevMUS.html#DMK_Nephron
the structure containing the glomerular capsule and the glomerulus that serves as the initial blood-filtering component of a 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
- anatomical entity
- 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 uriniferous tubule
- part of some nephron