Explain the relationship among minor calyces, major calyces, and renal pelvis.

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Explain the relationship among minor calyces, major calyces, and renal pelvis.

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In humans, the renal pelvis is the juncture where the two or three major calyces assemble jointly. It has a mucous membrane and is coated with transitional epithelium and an underlying lamina propria of  connective tissue. The renal pelvis tasks as a funnel for urine flowing to the ureter.

 

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The pyramids compriseof  primarily of tubules that transfer urine from outer, portion of the kidney, where urine is manufactured, to the calyces, or cup-shaped pockets in which urine collects before it departs through the ureter to the bladder. The point of each pyramid, named the papilla, launches into a calyx.
The minor calyces encircle the peak of the renal pyramids. At the peak into the minor calyx, Urine formed in the kidney passes through a renal papilla .

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