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 information
- SCTID:362049007
- TAO:0005284
- FMA:274259
- UMLS:C0226356 (ncithesaurus:Glomerular_Capillary)
- NCIT:C32684
- MA:0002587
- ZFA:0005284
- EMAPA:28245
pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
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]
Term relations
- capillary
- kidney capillary
- part of some renal glomerulus vasculature
- connected to some renal afferent arteriole
- part of some renal glomerulus
- part of some system
- contributes to morphology of some renal glomerulus