Glomerulus - CISMeF

Preferred Label : Glomerulus;

NCIt synonyms : Renal Glomerulus; Malpighian Tuft; Glomerular;

NCIt definition : A tuft of capillaries situated at the entrance to each nephron, within the Bowman's capsule. This tuft functions as the first stage in filtering blood in the kidney.;

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: A tiny, round cluster of blood vessels within the kidneys. It filters the blood to reabsorb useful materials and remove waste as urine.; CDISC: A cluster of convoluted capillaries beginning at each nephric tubule in the kidney and held together by connective tissue.;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000373009;

Details

Origin ID

C13250;

UMLS CUI

C0022663;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Renal Corpuscle [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Glomerulus [ICD-11 Extension code]
- Glomerulus [ICHI extension code]
- kidney glomerulus [MeSH Descriptor]
- kidney glomerulus [MeSH concept]
- mesonephric glomerulus [UBERON concept]
- neural glomerulus [UBERON concept]
- renal glomerulus [UBERON concept]
Contains anatomical structure(s)
- Glomerular Basement Membrane [NCIt concept]
- Glomerular Capillary [NCIt concept]
- Glomerular Mesangial Cell [NCIt concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Glomerulus structure (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- glomerulus, nos [SNOMED Notion]
False automatic mappings
- Glomerulus [FMA entity]
Semantic type(s)
- Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Glomerulus [FMA entity]
- Glomerulus structure (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- glomerulus, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- kidney glomerulus [MeSH concept]
- kidney glomerulus [MeSH Descriptor]
- renal glomerulus [UBERON concept]
concept_is_in_subset
- CDISC SDTM Anatomical Location Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CDISC SDTM Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CDISC SEND Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Terminology [NCIt concept]
tissue_is_expression_site_of_gene_product
- Collagen IV [NCIt concept]
- Myosin-9 [NCIt concept]
- Podocalyxin [NCIt concept]
- Receptor-Type Tyrosine-Protein Phosphatase O [NCIt concept]

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