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The glomerular capsule, also known as Bowman's capsule, is the blind expanded end of a renal tubule. It is a double layered epithelial capsule surrounding the glomerulus. The glomerular capsule together with the glomerulus are termed the renal corpuscle, the site of blood filtration within the kidneys.
Bowman’s capsule is a two-walled pouch that covers the glomerulus. The space in between the walls of the capsule is called Bowman’s space. Bowman’s capsule is known by other names, including the glomerular capsule, the Malpighian capsule and the renal corpuscular capsule.
The glomerulus is the main filtering unit of the kidney. It is formed by a network of small blood vessels (capillaries) enclosed within a sac called the Bowman's capsule. The space inside the capsule that surrounds the glomeruli is known as the Bowman's space. Each glomerulus is located at the beginning of the nephron.
Bowman's capsule (or the Bowman capsule, capsula glomeruli, or glomerular capsule) is a cup-like sac at the beginning of the tubular component of a nephron in the mammalian kidney that performs the first step in the filtration of blood to form urine. A glomerulus is enclosed in the sac.
Bowman’s capsule, double-walled cuplike structure that makes up part of the nephron, the filtration structure in the mammalian kidney that generates urine in the process of removing waste and excess substances from the blood. The capsule encloses a cluster of capillaries called the glomerulus.
Bowman’s capsule surrounds the glomerular capillary loops and participates in the filtration of blood from the glomerular capillaries. Bowman’s capsule also has a structural function and creates a urinary space through which filtrate can enter the nephron and pass to the proximal convoluted tubule.
The glomerular capsule is the double-walled globular dilatation that forms the beginning of a renal tubule and surrounds the glomerulus; the inner wall is called the visceral layer and the outer wall is called the parietal layer (Dorland, 2011).