A cup-like sac at the expanded beginning of a tubular component of a nephron that contains the glomerulus. [ MP:0002828 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman%27s_capsule http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/pvb ]
Synonyms: Bowmans capsule renal glomerular capsule Bowman's capsule capsula glomerularis
Term information
- EMAPA:27973
- BTO:0002297
- TAO:0005254
- NCIT:C32225
- Wikipedia:Bowman%27s_capsule
- ZFA:0005254
- ZFA:0005310
- SCTID:361331000
- KUPO:0001001
- EMAPA:28257
- AAO:0010526
- FMA:15626
- TAO:0005310
- MA:0001660
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
Bowman's capsule
capsula glomeruli
Mueller capsule
Muellerian capsule
pronephric glomerular capsule
Malpighian capsule
Term relations
- organ part
- develops from some S-shaped body
- contributes to morphology of some renal corpuscle
- capable of part of some glomerular filtration
- part of some renal corpuscle