A structural anomaly of the glomerulus. [ HPO_CONTRIBUTOR:Eurenomics_ewuehl http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18184729 ]
Synonyms: Morphologic abnormality of the renal glomerulus Abnormality of renal glomerulus morphology
Term information
- UMLS:C4025889
Each human kidney contains approximately one million nephrons. The glomerulus is the most proximal component of the nephron. The glomerulus of the mammalian kidney is a highly developed vascular bed that acts as a filter, allowing a filtrate of small molecules, such as water, sugars, electrolytes and small proteins, to pass through a barrier that retains high molecular weight proteins and cells in the circulation.
Term relations
- has part some (
morphology and
characteristic of part of some renal glomerulus and
has modifier some abnormal)