renal pelvis
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Notably, these include cancers that are linked to obesity including "colorectum, uterine corpus, gallbladder and other biliary, kidney and renal pelvis, and pancreas" cancers.
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Internally, the kidney has three layers: an outer cortex, the middle medulla, and the inner renal pelvis.
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On the inside of the kidney, the renal pelvis branches out into two or three extensions called the major calyces, which further branch into the minor calyces.
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The tips of the pyramids, called renal papillae, point toward the renal pelvis.
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Pyelonephrī′tis, inflammation of the kidney and renal pelvis.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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