Bowman's capsule

Bow·man's capsule  (bmnz)

n.

A double-walled, cup-shaped structure around the glomerulus of each nephron of the vertebrate kidney. It serves as a filter to remove organic wastes, excess inorganic salts, and water.

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[After Sir William Bowman (1816-1892), British surgeon.]

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Bowman's capsule  (bmnz)

A cup-shaped structure around the glomerulus of each nephron of the vertebrate kidney. It serves as a filter to remove organic wastes, excess inorganic salts, and water. Bowman's capsule is named after its identifier, English physician and physiologist, Sir William Bowman (1816-1892).

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Bowman's capsule - thin double membrane surrounding the glomerulus of a nephron capsula glomeruli, glomerular capsule malpighian body, malpighian corpuscle, renal corpuscle - the capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron tissue layer, membrane - a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants