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One of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries
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arteriole
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries [syn: arteriola , capillary artery ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small artery," by 1808, from Modern Latin arteriola , diminutive of arteria (see artery ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An arteriole is a small diameter blood vessel in the microcirculation that extends and branches out from an artery and leads to capillaries . Arterioles have muscular walls (usually only one to two layers of smooth muscle ) and are the primary site of vascular ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arteriola \Ar*te`ri*o"la\, Arteriole \Ar*te"ri*ole\, n. [NL. arteriola, dim. of L. arteria: cf. F. art['e]riole.] A small artery with a muscular wall.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) One of the small branches of an artery, especially one that connects with capillary.
Usage examples of arteriole.
If this arteriole offset was actually present, his fingers would have dropped off years ago.
The wall of the arteriole had been abraded by the injury and was not entirely blocked by the clot which embraced the section of nerve fibers and cells tightly.
Physostigmine, indeed, stimulates nearly all the non-striped muscles in the body, and this action upon the muscular coats of the arteries, and especially of the arterioles, causes a great rise in blood-pressure shortly after its absorption, which is very rapid.
The surgeon laser-cauterized the tiny arterioles that fed the chip with blood and kept its deteriorating organic parts alive, and swiftly burnt through the cilia-like array of neural connectors, finer than spider silk, across the chip's surface.
Neovascularization has covered her body with giant pulsing arterioles.
If you put them into reverse, we will just back out of this capillary and eventually -- not a very long eventually, either -- we will be back at the junction point and in the arteriole again.