RENAL CORTEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renal cortex mean? 

• RENAL CORTEX (noun)
  The noun RENAL CORTEX has 1 sense:

1. the cortex of the kidney containing the glomeruli and the convoluted tubules

  Familiarity information: RENAL CORTEX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENAL CORTEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cortex of the kidney containing the glomeruli and the convoluted tubules

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("renal cortex" is a kind of...):

cortex (the tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal)

Holonyms ("renal cortex" is a part of...):

kidney (either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine)

 Context examples 

A functional unit of the kidney consisting of a renal pyramid and the renal cortex surrounding it.

(Kidney Lobe, NCI Thesaurus)

Scarring and atrophy of the renal cortex that occurs in hypertensive patients and in old age.

(Arterionephrosclerosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital renal disorder characterized by the presence of small cysts in the renal cortex and/or renal medulla.

(Microcystic Renal Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

A nephron with its corpuscle in the cortex and Loop of Henle in the renal medulla close to its junction with the renal cortex.

(Cortical Nephron, NCI Thesaurus)