renal lobule
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0009914
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 info
- Wikipedia:Cortical_lobule
- FMA:17670
- SCTID:361330004
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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
uberon
UBERON:0009914
Renal lobule
Term relations
- lobule
- anatomical entity
- contributes to morphology of some kidney
- has part some nephron
- has part some medullary ray
- part of some renal lobe