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 ]
Synonyms: Malpighian corpuscle corpusculum renale
Term information
- NCIT:C33456
- TAO:0005281
- FMA:15625
- SCTID:361329009
- EV:0100385
- ZFA:0005281
- CALOHA:TS-1317
- Wikipedia:Renal_corpuscle
- BTO:0000333
- MA:0000376
- VHOG:0001262
- EMAPA:28236
- EMAPA:35726
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
Together, the Bowmans capsule and the glomerulus comprise the definitive renal corpuscle. http://www.gudmap.org/About/Tutorial/DevMUS.html#DMK_Nephron
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