Renal Pyramid
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A Renal Pyramid is a tissues of the kidney.
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- It can (typically) be cone-shaped.
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- See: Vasa Rectae, Parenchyma, Renal Cortex, Perirenal Fat, Renal Capsule, Ureter, Renal Pelvis, Renal Artery, Renal Vein, Hilum of Kidney, Calyx (Kidney), Urinary System.
References
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal_medulla#Pyramids Retrieved:2022-10-22.
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Renal pyramids (or malpighian pyramids or Malpighi's pyramids named after Marcello Malpighi, a seventeenth-century anatomist) are cone-shaped tissues of the kidney. In humans, the renal medulla is made up of 10 to 18 of these conical subdivisions.[1][2] The broad base of each pyramid faces the renal cortex, and its apex, or papilla, points internally towards the pelvis. The pyramids appear striped because they are formed by straight parallel segments of nephrons' Loops of Henle and collecting ducts. The base of each pyramid originates at the corticomedullary border and the apex terminates in a papilla, which lies within a minor calyx, made of parallel bundles of urine collecting tubules.
- ↑ Wheater's Functional Histology (6 ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier. 2014. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-7020-4747-3.
- ↑ "Renal Pyramids Function, Anatomy & Diagram | Body Maps". 21 January 2018. https://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/renal-pyramids.