Kidney pyramids are the conical arrangements of tubules that constitute the renal medulla in a multi-lobed mammalian kidney; they contain the loops of Henle and the medullary collecting ducts. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0072056 http://anatomy.uams.edu/anatomyhtml/kidney.html ]

Synonyms: renal pyramid Malpighian pyramid

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

depiction

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

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-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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Kidney_PioM.png

external ontology notes

not the same as FMA:50609 Pyramid (which is a volume / dimensional entity)

fma set term

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FMA_74268

has related synonym

renal medullary region

medullary pyramid

pyramid of Malphigi

Malpighian pyramid

pyramides renales

Malphigian pyramid

pyramis renalis

pyramid of Malpighi

has alternative id

UBERON:0002449

UBERON:0005098

id

UBERON:0004200

present in taxon

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