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
Although the diameter of an individual capillary is significantly smaller than the diameter of an arteriole, there are vastly more capillaries in the body than there are other types of blood vessels.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
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
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
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