A tiny hall of microscopic blood vessels on the end of the renal tubules.
A group of tiny blood vessels within the nephron of the kidney.
A group of blood vessels which filter waste matter from the blood in a kidney.
Glomeruli, cluster, especially the network of blood capillaries, contained in Bowman’s capsule of a kidney nephron that is the main site where waste products from the blood are filtered into the kidney tubules.
The network of blood capillaries contained within the cuplike end (Bowman’s capsule) of a nephron. It is the site of primary filtration of waste products from the blood into the kidney tubule.
A small knot of blood vessels about the size of a grain of sand, of which around one million are found in each of the two kidneys, and from which the excretion of fluid out of the blood into the tubules of the kidney takes place.
One of the capillary networks that are part of the renal corpuscles in the nephrons of the kidney. Each is surrounded by a Bowman’s capsule, the site of renal (glomerular) filtration, which is the first step in the formation of urine.
A glomerulus is a filtration unit within the kidney. Each glomerulus is composed of a group of tiny blood vessels or capillaries, enclosed within a capsule and nourished by blood from the renal artery. It is a component of a larger filtration system known as a nephron. The filtered blood ultimately departs the kidney through the renal vein.
A small bundle of blood vessels in the kidney that interacts with a cup-shaped tube responsible for collecting waste. A healthy kidney has around one million such bundles, known as glomerules. These glomerules help produce a liquid free of protein from the blood. This liquid is then transformed into urine as water and specific salts are reabsorbed by the tubules that extend from the cup-shaped structure.