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Animal Structures > Head Kidney
Embryonic Structures > Pronephros > Head Kidney

Preferred term

Head Kidney  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Anterior Kidney
  • Anterior Kidneys
  • Kidney, Anterior
  • Kidneys, Anterior

Scope note

  • A primitive form of vertebrate kidney that is found in adults of some primitive FISHES and in the embryos of more advanced fishes. In some species of fishes it contains phagocytic cells and is also a major site of HEMATOPOIESIS, analogous to the mammalian BONE MARROW.

History note

  • 2012

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D060226

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