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renal corpuscle
anatomy
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Also known as: malpighian body
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- Also called:
- malpighian body
- Key People:
- Marcello Malpighi
- Related Topics:
- Bowman’s capsule
- glomerulus
- glomerular pressure
- juxtaglomerular cell
- vascular pole
renal corpuscle, filtration unit of vertebrate nephrons, functional units of the kidney. It consists of a knot of capillaries (glomerulus) surrounded by a double-walled capsule (Bowman’s capsule) that opens into a tubule. Blood pressure forces plasma minus its macromolecules (e.g., proteins) from the glomerular capillaries into the Bowman’s capsule. This filtrate, called capsular urine, then passes into the tubule for further processing.