kidney capsule in dogs

The tough fibrous layer surrounding the kidney which is covered in a thick layer of perirenal adipose tissue that functions to provide some protection from trauma and damage. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the kidney capsule is

The tough fibrous layer surrounding the kidney which is covered in a thick layer of perirenal adipose tissue that functions to provide some protection from trauma and damage. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the dog.

Where the kidney 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 kidney capsule connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of kidney.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the kidney 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 capsula fibrosa renis, capsule of kidney, fibrous capsule of kidney and renal capsule. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002015, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the kidney 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 kidney capsule connect to?

Part of: kidney.

Is the kidney 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.