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

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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

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lobuli corticales renis

renal cortical lobule

cortical lobule

renculus

renunculus

cortical lobule of kidney

reniculus

lobulus corticalis renalis

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