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renal lobule
- Term ID
- UBERON:0009914
- Synonyms
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- 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
- References
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- Cortical:lobule
- http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/361330004
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