kidney calyx

Recesses of the kidney pelvis which divides into two wide, cup-shaped major renal calices, with each major calix subdivided into 7 to 14 minor calices. Urine empties into a minor calix from collecting tubules, then passes through the major calix, renal pelvis, and ureter to enter the urinary bladder. (From Moore, Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 3d ed, p211). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the kidney calyx is

Recesses of the kidney pelvis which divides into two wide, cup-shaped major renal calices, with each major calix subdivided into 7 to 14 minor calices. Urine empties into a minor calix from collecting tubules, then passes through the major calix, renal pelvis, and ureter to enter the urinary bladder. (From Moore, Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 3d ed, p211). The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the kidney calyx 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 kidney calyx connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of renal pelvis.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the kidney calyx. 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 calyx, calices renales, renal calix and renal calyx. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0006517, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: renal pelvis.
• A kind of: organ subunit.
• subtype: major calyx and minor calyx.
• contributes to morphology of: renal pelvis.

Questions

Where is the kidney calyx?

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 kidney calyx connect to?

Part of: renal pelvis.

Is the kidney calyx 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.