The portion of a renal lobe consisting of nephrons grouped around a single medullary ray and draining into a single collecting duct; human kidneys have multilobular, multipapillary architecture while mice and rats have unilobular, unipapillary kidneys. [ MP:0011382 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_lobule ]
Synonyms: kidney lobule lobulus renalis
Term information
- Wikipedia:Cortical_lobule
- SCTID:361330004
- FMA:17670
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Alternate definition: One of the subdivisions of the kidney, consisting of a medullary ray and that portion of the convoluted port (renal corpuscles and convoluted tubules) associated with its collecting duct. -http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?lobulus+corticalis+renalis
lobuli corticales renis
renal cortical lobule
cortical lobule
renculus
renunculus
cortical lobule of kidney
reniculus
lobulus corticalis renalis
Term relations
- lobule
- contributes to morphology of some kidney
- has part some nephron
- has part some medullary ray
- part of some renal lobe