keel meaning, keel definition | English Cobuild dictionary. Search also in: Web News Encyclopedia Images. keel. ( keels plural & 3rd person present) ( keeling present participle) ( keeled past tense & past participle ) 1 n-count The keel of a boat is the long, specially shaped piece of wood or steel along the bottom of it.
The segmental arteries divide within the renal sinus to form the interlobar arteries which enter the kidney crossing the space between the calyces and adjacent cortical parenchyma, they continue by the space between pyramids (medulla) and the septa or columns of Bertin (the cortical tissue that surrounds pyramids).
Blood reaches the kidney through the renal arteries, a branch of the aorta. The path from the renal artery to the glomerulus runs as follows: lobar artery, interlobar artery, arcuate artery, interlobular artery, and afferent arterioles. Afferent means that the arteriole is carrying blood toward the glomerulus.