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glomerular capillary

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The small branching blood vessels in the kidney glomerulus that receives blood from the kidney afferent arterioles; these capillaries are under high pressure for filtering within the glomerulus. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith MP:0011320 ]

Synonyms: renal glomerulus capillary vessel, capillary of renal glomerulus, capillary vessel of renal glomerulus, renal glomerulus capillary, blood capillary of renal glomerulus, renal glomerulus blood capillary

Term info

database cross reference
  • TAO:0005284
  • ZFA:0005284
  • NCIT:C32684
  • EMAPA:28245
  • MA:0002587
  • FMA:274259
  • UMLS:C0226356 (ncithesaurus:Glomerular_Capillary)
  • SCTID:362049007
Subsets

pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas

plural term
glomerular capillaries

UBPROP 0000001

Capillary that is part of the renal glomerulus. Glomerular capillary endothelial membranes in zebrafish normally have a fenestrated morphology that is visible at the ultrastructural level.[TAO]

has related synonym

glomerular capillary system, glomerular capillaries

id

UBERON:0004212

prefLabel

glomerular capillary

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606