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renal lobule

Term ID
UBERON:0009914
Synonyms
  • cortical lobule
  • cortical lobule of kidney
  • kidney lobule
  • lobuli corticales renis
  • lobulus corticalis renalis
  • lobulus renalis
  • renal cortical lobule
  • renculus
  • reniculus
  • renunculus
Definition
The portion of a renal lobe consisting of nephrons grouped around a single medullary ray and draining into a single collecting duct; human kidneys have multilobular, multipapillary architecture while mice and rats have unilobular, unipapillary kidneys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_lobule
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