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Renal corpuscle
Blood-filtering component of the nephron of the kidney / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A renal corpuscle (or Malpighian body[1]) is the blood-filtering component of the nephron of the kidney. It consists of a glomerulus - a tuft of capillaries composed of endothelial cells, and a glomerular capsule known as Bowman's capsule.[2]
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![]() The structure of the renal corpuscle. | |
![]() Diagram of the circulation related to a single glomerulus, associated tubule, and collecting system The renal corpuscle in the cortex (outer layer) of the kidney. At the top, the renal corpuscle containing the glomerulus. The filtered blood exits into the renal tubule as filtrate, at right. At left, blood flows from the afferent arteriole (red), enters into the renal corpuscle and is filtered in the glomerulus; blood flows out of the efferent arteriole (blue). | |
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Location | Nephron of the kidney |
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Latin | corpusculum renis |
FMA | 15625 |
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