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Renal corpuscle

renal corpuscle

The tuft of glomerular capillaries and the capsula glomeruli that encloses it.

Synonym: corpusculum renis, malpighian corpuscles. The capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron.


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