renal system

The renal system in an anatomical system that maintains fluid balance and contributes to electrolyte balance, acid/base balance, and disposal of nitrogenous waste products. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the renal system is

The renal system in an anatomical system that maintains fluid balance and contributes to electrolyte balance, acid/base balance, and disposal of nitrogenous waste products. The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the human body.

Where the renal system is

It sits within the urinary system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the renal system connects to

The atlas records 25 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of genitourinary system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the renal system. 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 excretory system, systema urinaria, systema urinarium, urinary system, urinary tract and renal or urinary system, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001008, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: genitourinary system.
• A kind of: excretory system.
• contains: cloacal membrane, collecting duct of renal tubule, distal ureter, epithelium of urethra, intramural ureter and lamina propria of ureter, and 12 more.
• contributes to morphology of: kidney, ureteropelvic junction and ureterovesical junction.
• develops into: nephron and remnant of urachus.

Questions

Where is the renal system?

It sits within the urinary system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the renal system connect to?

Part of: genitourinary system.

Is the renal system 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.