renal corpuscle

English

Noun

renal corpuscle (plural renal corpuscles)

1. (anatomy) the blood-filtering structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and a Bowman's capsule.

Synonyms

• kidney corpuscle
• Malpighian corpuscle
• Malpighian body

Translations

blood-filtering structure

• Catalan: corpuscle renal m
• Finnish: munuaiskeränen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: corpúsculo renal

See also

• renal corpuscle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia