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Preferred term

Kidney Tubules, Collecting  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Collecting Duct, Kidney
  • Collecting Ducts, Kidney
  • Kidney Collecting Duct
  • Kidney Collecting Ducts

Scope note

  • Straight tubes commencing in the radiate part of the kidney cortex where they receive the curved ends of the distal convoluted tubules. In the medulla the collecting tubules of each pyramid converge to join a central tube (duct of Bellini) which opens on the summit of the papilla.

History note

  • 91(79); was see under KIDNEY TUBULES 1979-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007685

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