kidney pyramid in dogs

Kidney pyramids are the conical arrangements of tubules that constitute the renal medulla in a multi-lobed mammalian kidney; they contain the loops of Henle and the medullary collecting ducts. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the kidney pyramid is

Kidney pyramids are the conical arrangements of tubules that constitute the renal medulla in a multi-lobed mammalian kidney; they contain the loops of Henle and the medullary collecting ducts. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the kidney pyramid 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 pyramid connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of organ and renal medulla.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the kidney pyramid. 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 pyramid, Malpighian pyramid, renal pyramid, Malphigian pyramid, medullary pyramid and pyramid of Malphigi, 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:0004200, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the kidney pyramid?

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 pyramid connect to?

Part of: organ and renal medulla.

Is the kidney pyramid 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.