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kidney capsule

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002015

The tough fibrous layer surrounding the kidney which is covered in a thick layer of perirenal adipose tissue that functions to provide some protection from trauma and damage. [ MP:0011383 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/anna ]

Synonyms: capsula fibrosa renis renal capsule capsule of kidney fibrous capsule of kidney

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

latin term
capsula fibrosa renis [ FMA:TA FMA:66610 ]

depiction

https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/kidney-male-left/v1.3/assets/3d-vh-m-kidney-l.glb

https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/kidney-female-left/v1.3/assets/3d-vh-f-kidney-l.glb

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Illu_kidney.jpg

https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/kidney-female-right/v1.3/assets/3d-vh-f-kidney-r.glb

https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/kidney-male-right/v1.3/assets/3d-vh-m-kidney-r.glb

function notes

provides some protection from trauma and damage.

id

UBERON:0002015

present in taxon

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

structure notes

The renal capsule relates to the other layers in the following order (moving from innermost to outermost): renal medulla renal cortex renal capsule perinephric fat (or 'perirenal fat') renal fascia paranephric fat (or 'pararenal fat') peritoneum (anteriorly), and transversalis fascia (posteriorly).[Wikipedia:Kidney_capsule]