renal corpuscle
Anatomy
noun
The roughly spherical structure forming the origin of the functional unit (nephron) of the kidney, which consists of a glomerulus surrounded by a cup-like expansion of the proximal part of a tubule, and in which the initial filtration leading to the production of urine occurs.
Origin
Late 19th century.
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