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Show the structure of a renal corpuscle with the help of a diagram.



A renal corpuscle is the part of the functional unit of kidney called nephron which is responsible for filtration of blood. It is having the glomerulus which is a tuft of capillaries together and a glomerular capsule which is known as Bowman's capsule. Each nephron has a renal corpuscle.


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