kidney capillary

A capillary that is part of a kidney [Automatically generated definition]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the kidney capillary is

A capillary that is part of a kidney [Automatically generated definition]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the kidney 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 kidney capillary connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of kidney and kidney vasculature.

Supply and innervation

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

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003527, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: kidney and kidney vasculature.
A kind of: capillary and kidney blood vessel.
subtype: glomerular capillary and peritubular capillary.

Questions

Where is the kidney capillary?

What does the kidney capillary connect to?

Part of: kidney and kidney vasculature.

Is the kidney 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.