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: renal glomerular capsule Bowmans capsule Bowman's capsule capsula glomerularis
Term information
- EMAPA:28257
- FMA:15626
- ZFA:0005254
- KUPO:0001001
- EMAPA:27973
- AAO:0010526
- MA:0001660
- TAO:0005310
- TAO:0005254
- UMLS:C0524448 (ncithesaurus:Bowman_s_Capsule)
- NCIT:C32225
- BTO:0002297
- Wikipedia:Bowman%27s_capsule
- ZFA:0005310
- SCTID:361331000
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
Mueller capsule
Muellerian capsule
pronephric glomerular capsule
Malpighian capsule
Term relations
- organ part
- environment associated with an animal part or small animal
- 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