Glomerular capsule 8X
The glomerular capsule (also known as Bowman's capsule) is a cup-shaped sac at the start of the nephron in the kidney. It fully surrounds a tiny ball of blood vessels called the glomerulus. Together, they form the renal corpuscle, which does the vital first step of cleaning your blood and making urine
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