glomerular capsule in dogs

A cup-like sac at the expanded beginning of a tubular component of a nephron that contains the glomerulus. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the glomerular capsule is

A cup-like sac at the expanded beginning of a tubular component of a nephron that contains the glomerulus. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the glomerular capsule 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 glomerular capsule connects to

The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of organ and renal corpuscle.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the glomerular capsule. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as Bowman's capsule, Bowmans capsule, capsula glomerularis, renal glomerular capsule, Malphigian capsule and Malpighian capsule, and 4 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001230, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: organ and renal corpuscle.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• Adjacent to: lamina rara interna.
• contains: Bowman's space, glomerular parietal epithelium, glomerular tuft, glomerular visceral epithelium, podocyte slit diaphragm and podocyte slit junction.
• contributes to morphology of: renal corpuscle, Bowman's space and glomerular visceral epithelium.
• Continuous with: proximal convoluted tubule and proximal tubule.
• Develops from: S-shaped body.

Questions

Where is the glomerular capsule?

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 glomerular capsule connect to?

Part of: organ and renal corpuscle.

Is the glomerular capsule 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.