renal glomerulus

A capillary tuft which forms a close network with the visceral epithelium (podocytes) and the mesangium to form the filtration barrier and is surrounded by Bowman's capsule in nephrons of the vertebrate kidney[GO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the renal glomerulus is

A capillary tuft which forms a close network with the visceral epithelium (podocytes) and the mesangium to form the filtration barrier and is surrounded by Bowman's capsule in nephrons of the vertebrate kidney[GO]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the renal glomerulus 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 glomerulus connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of renal corpuscle.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the renal glomerulus. 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 glomerulus, renal glomeruli, Malphigian glomerulus, Malpighian glomerulus, Malpighian tuft and glomerular capillary tuft, and 3 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000074, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: renal corpuscle.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and organ part.
• contains: glomerular basement membrane, glomerular capillary, glomerular capillary endothelium, glomerular epithelium, mesangium and renal glomerulus vasculature.
• contributes to morphology of: glomerular capillary and glomerular mesangium.
• overlaps: extraglomerular mesangium.

Questions

Where is the renal glomerulus?

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 glomerulus connect to?

Part of: renal corpuscle.

Is the renal glomerulus 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.