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arteriole

[ahr-teer-ee-ohl] / ɑrˈtɪər iˌoʊl /
NOUN
blood vessel
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They also reduced heart muscle growth and scaring while prompting arteriole formation and growth.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

Blood capillaries are found beneath the dermis, and are linked to an arteriole and a venule.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

When it is, an arteriole can expand by as much as 150 percent.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Each metarteriole arises from a terminal arteriole and branches to supply blood to a capillary bed that may consist of 10–100 capillaries.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

When this sudden systemic arteriole spasm extends to the coronary vessels in a heart whose walls are diseased, a fatal attack of angina with the heart full of blood may be induced.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock