cortex of kidney in dogs

Outer cortical portion of the kidney, between the renal capsule and the renal medulla. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cortex of kidney is

Outer cortical portion of the kidney, between the renal capsule and the renal medulla. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the cortex of kidney is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the cortex of kidney connects to

The atlas records 31 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of kidney and organ.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: renal cortex artery. Venous drainage: renal cortex vein.

Also called

Also recorded as cortex renalis, kidney cortex and renal cortex. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001225, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: kidney and organ.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and cortex.
• Adjacent to: kidney corticomedullary boundary.
• contains: cortical collecting duct, distal convoluted tubule, juxtaglomerular apparatus, juxtamedullary cortex, kidney arcuate artery and medullary ray, and 12 more.
• contributes to morphology of: kidney, medullary ray, renal corpuscle, renal cortex artery and renal cortex vein.
• subtype: outer cortex of kidney.
• Supplied by: renal cortex artery.
• Drained by: renal cortex vein.

Questions

Where is the cortex of kidney?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the cortex of kidney connect to?

Part of: kidney and organ.

Is the cortex of kidney the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.