glomerular capillary

The small branching blood vessels in the kidney glomerulus that receives blood from the kidney afferent arterioles; these capillaries are under high pressure for filtering within the glomerulus. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the glomerular capillary is

The small branching blood vessels in the kidney glomerulus that receives blood from the kidney afferent arterioles; these capillaries are under high pressure for filtering within the glomerulus. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the glomerular capillary is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular and urinary systems. 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 glomerular capillary connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of renal glomerulus and renal glomerulus vasculature.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the glomerular capillary. 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 blood capillary of renal glomerulus, capillary of renal glomerulus, capillary vessel of renal glomerulus, renal glomerulus blood capillary, renal glomerulus capillary and renal glomerulus capillary vessel, and 2 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0004212, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: renal glomerulus and renal glomerulus vasculature.
• A kind of: kidney capillary.
• Connected to: renal afferent arteriole and renal efferent arteriole.
• contributes to morphology of: renal glomerulus and glomerular capillary endothelium.
• contains: glomerular capillary endothelium.
• surrounded by: mesangium.

Questions

Where is the glomerular capillary?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular and urinary systems. 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 glomerular capillary connect to?

Part of: renal glomerulus and renal glomerulus vasculature.

Is the glomerular capillary 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.