Anatomy
- an eggshell
- Articular capsules - every diarthrodial joint possesses a fibrous or ligamentous capsule, lined with synovial membrane, attached to the adjacent ends of the articulating bones
- the sac that encloses the crystalline lens of the eye
- Fibrous capsule of Glisson, a thin areolar coat of fibrous tissue lying inside the tunica serosa of the liver
- Bowman's capsules (or glomerular capsules) in the kidney substance
- the renal capsule (also known as Gerota's fascia), a tough fibrous layer surrounding the kidney and covered in a thick layer of perinephric adipose tissue
- the suprarenal capsules, two small flattened organs in the epigastric region
- the internal, external, and extreme capsules of the brain
- the outer surface of a benign tumor
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