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kidney capsule

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The tough fibrous layer surrounding the kidney which is covered in a thick layer of perirenal adipose tissue that functions to provide some protection from trauma and damage. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/anna MP:0011383 ]

Synonyms: capsula fibrosa renis renal capsule capsule of kidney fibrous capsule of kidney

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

latin term
capsula fibrosa renis [ FMA:TA FMA:66610 ]

depicted by

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Illu_kidney.jpg

function notes

provides some protection from trauma and damage.

id

UBERON:0002015

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

structure notes

The renal capsule relates to the other layers in the following order (moving from innermost to outermost): renal medulla renal cortex renal capsule perinephric fat (or 'perirenal fat') renal fascia paranephric fat (or 'pararenal fat') peritoneum (anteriorly), and transversalis fascia (posteriorly).[Wikipedia:Kidney_capsule]