Renal capsule

Renal capsule
1: Parenchyma 2: Cortex 3: Medulla 4: Perirenal fat 5: Capsule 6: Ureter 7: Pelvis of kidney 8: Renal artery and Renal vein 9: Hilus 10: Calyx
Transverse section, showing the relations of the capsule of the kidney. (Labeled as "adipose capsule".)
Latin	capsula adiposa renis, capsula fibrosa renis
Gray's	subject #253 1220
Dorlands/Elsevier	c_07/12211754

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The renal capsule is a tough fibrous layer surrounding the kidney and covered in a thick layer of perinephric adipose tissue. It provides some protection from trauma and damage.

The renal capsule relates to the other layers in the following manner (moving from innermost to outermost):

• renal medulla
• renal cortex
• renal capsule
• perinephric fat (or "perirenal fat")
• renal fascia
• paranephric fat (or "pararenal fat")
• peritoneum (anteriorly), and transversalis fascia (posteriorly)

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  Frontal section through the kidney

External links

• Anatomy at PSU urogen/dissectkidney2
• Organology at UC Davis Urinary/mammal/cortex1/cortex3 - "Mammal, kidney cortex (LM, Medium)"
• Human anatomy at Dartmouth figures/chapter_29/29-5.HTM