arteriole

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They also reduced heart muscle growth and scaring while prompting arteriole formation and growth.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

The branch that enters the glomerulus is called the afferent arteriole.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

In addition to muscle and connective tissue to support its structure, each villus contains a capillary bed composed of one arteriole and one venule, as well as a lymphatic capillary called a lacteal.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Such a deposition of layer upon layer of cells in an arteriole and the resulting fibrosis leads to the condition of disappearance of the lumen of the vessel, endarteritis obliterans.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall