cortex of kidney

Outer cortical portion of the kidney, between the renal capsule and the renal medulla. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cortex of kidney is

Outer cortical portion of the kidney, between the renal capsule and the renal medulla. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the cortex of kidney is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the cortex of kidney connects to

The atlas records 20 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of kidney and renal parenchyma.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: stellate vein of kidney.

Also called

Also recorded as cortex renalis, kidney cortex and renal cortex. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001225, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: kidney and renal parenchyma.
• A kind of: cortex.
• contains: cortical collecting duct, distal convoluted tubule, juxtaglomerular apparatus, juxtamedullary cortex, kidney arcuate artery and medullary ray, and 6 more.
• contributes to morphology of: kidney, medullary ray and renal corpuscle.
• subtype: outer cortex of kidney.
• Drained by: stellate vein of kidney.

Questions

Where is the cortex of kidney?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the cortex of kidney connect to?

Part of: kidney and renal parenchyma.

Is the cortex of kidney 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.