Tim Taylor is a senior writer at Innerbody Research focusing on human anatomy and physiology. Tim earned both his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and his Master's degree in Teaching from the University of Pittsburgh.
The renal cortex is where several of the distal convoluted tubules merge and form a collecting duct, which in turn passes into the renal medulla, becoming larger and larger as it joins other collecting ducts, the resulting tube is called the papillary duct.
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