A cup-like sac at the expanded beginning of a tubular component of a nephron that contains the glomerulus [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman%27s_capsule http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/pvb ]
Synonyms: renal glomerular capsule Bowmans capsule Bowman's capsule capsula glomerularis
Term information
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0524448
- UMLS:C0524448 (ncithesaurus:Bowman_s_Capsule)
- BTO:0002297
- KUPO:0001001
- null:http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/361331000
- EMAPA:28257
- EMAPA:27973
- TAO:0005254
- FMA:15626
- NCIT:C32225
- null:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman%27s_capsule
- TAO:0005310
- AAO:0010526
- ZFA:0005310
- ZFA:0005254
- MA:0001660
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
Anatomical structure found in the kidney consisting of an expanded end of a kidney tubule surrounding a glomerulus and is the major site of filtration.[AAO]
Fluids from blood in the glomerulus are collected in the Bowman's capsule and further processed along the nephron to form urine. This process is known as ultrafiltration[WP].
Malphigian capsule
Bowman's capsule
capsula glomeruli
Muellerian capsule
Mueller capsule
pronephric glomerular capsule
Malpighian capsule
Term relations
- organ part
- contributes to morphology of some renal corpuscle
- part of some renal corpuscle
- develops_from some S-shaped body