A paired organ of the urinary tract that produces urine and maintains bodily fluid homeostasis, blood pressure, pH levels, red blood cell production and skeleton mineralization. [ https://www.kidney.org/kidneydisease/top-5-jobs-kidneys-do http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25140012 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35003210 http://anatomy.uams.edu/anatomyhtml/kidney.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney ]
Term information
- BTO:0000671
- Wikipedia:Kidney
- CALOHA:TS-0510
- MESH:D007668
- galen:Kidney
- AAO:0000250
- MAT:0000119
- GAID:423
- XAO:0003267
- MIAA:0000119
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, organ_slim, major_organ, human_reference_atlas
Term relations
- abdomen element
- cavitated compound organ
- lateral structure
- develops from some kidney rudiment
- develops from some kidney mesenchyme
- contributes to morphology of some renal system
- BSPO_0000126 some multicellular organism
- part of some upper urinary tract