arterial capillary

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A capillary opening from an arteriole or metarteriole.

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Most drivers using this road are headed to and from a handful of capillary valleys in the Pech.
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Over time, the theory goes, inflammation causes trouble—plaques and less pliable arterial walls.
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Heavy lacerations, arterial bleeding, left leg and left arm.
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By respiration the black venous blood is transformed into red arterial blood and regenerated.
Urania|Camille Flammarion

That was an axiom on which was founded a vigorous war against all capillary adornments.
The British Expedition to the Crimea|William Howard Russell
The leakage takes place, if not along cracks, through capillary channels, which are everywhere present in sea-ice.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson
He knew, also, that the pulmonary veins conducted arterial blood, and that the pericardium was a shut sac.
An Epitome of the History of Medicine|Roswell Park
In 1687 Cowper saw the passage of the arterial into the venous current in the mesentery of a cat.
An Epitome of the History of Medicine|Roswell Park