National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Glomerulus

Synonyms

renal glomerulus

Malpighian Tuft

Renal Glomerulus

GLOMERULUS

Glomerular

Glomerulus

Definitions

A tuft of capillaries situated at the entrance to each nephron, within the Bowman's capsule. This tuft functions as the first stage in filtering blood in the kidney.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C13250

ALT_DEFINITION

A cluster of convoluted capillaries beginning at each nephric tubule in the kidney and held together by connective tissue.

A tiny, round cluster of blood vessels within the kidneys. It filters the blood to reabsorb useful materials and remove waste as urine.

code

C13250

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C66830

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C77526

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C74456

Contributing_Source

CDISC

DEFINITION

A tuft of capillaries situated at the entrance to each nephron, within the Bowman's capsule. This tuft functions as the first stage in filtering blood in the kidney.

FULL_SYN

renal glomerulus

Malpighian Tuft

Renal Glomerulus

GLOMERULUS

Glomerular

Glomerulus

label

Glomerulus

Legacy Concept Name

Glomerulus

Preferred_Name

Glomerulus

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C13250

Semantic_Type

Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component

UMLS_CUI

C0022663

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C34028

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