Bowman's space
A narrow chalice-shaped cavity between the glomerular and capsular epithelium of the glomerular capsule of the kidney[TFD]. Between the visceral and parietal layers, into which the filtrate enters after passing through the podocytes' filtration slits[WP]. luminal region between the glomerular capsule visceral and parietal layers, into which filtrate enters after passing through the filtration barrier from the glomerular capillaries[MP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the Bowman's space is
A narrow chalice-shaped cavity between the glomerular and capsular epithelium of the glomerular capsule of the kidney[TFD]. Between the visceral and parietal layers, into which the filtrate enters after passing through the podocytes' filtration slits[WP]. luminal region between the glomerular capsule visceral and parietal layers, into which filtrate enters after passing through the filtration barrier from the glomerular capillaries[MP]. The atlas records it as a cavity at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the Bowman's space is
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What the Bowman's space connects to
The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of glomerular capsule.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the Bowman's space. 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 space, capsular space, glomerular capsule space, glomerular urinary space, inter-glomerular space and pronephric capsular space, 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:0001286, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: glomerular capsule.
- A kind of: anatomical space.
- Adjacent to: glomerular parietal epithelium, glomerular visceral epithelium and lamina rara externa.
- contributes to morphology of: glomerular capsule.
Questions
Where is the Bowman's space?
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What does the Bowman's space connect to?
Part of: glomerular capsule.
Is the Bowman's space the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.