renal corpuscle in dogs

The structure containing the glomerular capsule and the glomerulus that serves as the initial blood-filtering component of a nephron. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the renal corpuscle is

The structure containing the glomerular capsule and the glomerulus that serves as the initial blood-filtering component of a nephron. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the renal corpuscle 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 renal corpuscle connects to

The atlas records 21 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of cortex of kidney, kidney and nephron, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the renal corpuscle. 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 Malphigian corpuscle, Malpighian corpuscle, corpusculum renale, corpusculum renis, cortical renal corpuscle and kidney corpuscle. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001229, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cortex of kidney, kidney, nephron, organ and renal system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, epithelium and kidney epithelium.
• contains: extraglomerular mesangium, glomerular basement membrane, glomerular capsule, podocyte slit diaphragm, podocyte slit junction and renal afferent arteriole, and 2 more.
• contributes to morphology of: cortex of kidney, nephron, glomerular capsule, renal afferent arteriole and renal efferent arteriole.

Questions

Where is the renal corpuscle?

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 renal corpuscle connect to?

Part of: cortex of kidney, kidney, nephron, organ and renal system.

Is the renal corpuscle 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.