renal corpuscle

The structure containing the glomerular capsule and the glomerulus that serves as the initial blood-filtering component of a nephron. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the renal corpuscle is

The structure containing the glomerular capsule and the glomerulus that serves as the initial blood-filtering component of a nephron. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the renal corpuscle 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 renal corpuscle connects to

The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of cortex of kidney, nephron and uriniferous tubule.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the renal corpuscle. 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 Malphigian corpuscle, Malpighian corpuscle, corpusculum renale, corpusculum renis, cortical renal corpuscle and kidney corpuscle. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001229, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cortex of kidney, nephron and uriniferous tubule.
• A kind of: organ subunit.
• contains: extraglomerular mesangium, glomerular basement membrane, glomerular capsule, renal afferent arteriole, renal efferent arteriole and renal glomerulus.
• contributes to morphology of: cortex of kidney, nephron, glomerular capsule, renal afferent arteriole and renal efferent arteriole.

Questions

Where is the renal corpuscle?

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 renal corpuscle connect to?

Part of: cortex of kidney, nephron and uriniferous tubule.

Is the renal corpuscle 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.