renal papilla

Tip of renal pyramid projecting into a minor calyx. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the renal papilla is

Tip of renal pyramid projecting into a minor calyx. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the renal papilla 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 papilla connects to

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

Supply and innervation

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

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001228, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: inner medulla of kidney and renal pelvis.
• A kind of: organ part.
• contributes to morphology of: renal pelvis.
• contains: tip of renal papilla.

Questions

Where is the renal papilla?

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 papilla connect to?

Part of: inner medulla of kidney and renal pelvis.

Is the renal papilla 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.