kidney pyramid

Kidney pyramids are the conical arrangements of tubules that constitute the renal medulla in a multi-lobed mammalian kidney; they contain the loops of Henle and the medullary collecting ducts. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the kidney pyramid is

Kidney pyramids are the conical arrangements of tubules that constitute the renal medulla in a multi-lobed mammalian kidney; they contain the loops of Henle and the medullary collecting ducts. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the kidney pyramid 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 pyramid connects to

The atlas records 3 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of renal medulla.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the kidney pyramid. 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 pyramid, Malpighian pyramid, renal pyramid, Malphigian pyramid, medullary pyramid and pyramid of Malphigi, 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:0004200, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: renal medulla.
A kind of: organ part.
contributes to morphology of: renal medulla.

Questions

Where is the kidney pyramid?

What does the kidney pyramid connect to?

Part of: renal medulla.

Is the kidney pyramid 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.