arteriole
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of arteriole
1830–40; < New Latin artēriola, equivalent to Latin artēri ( a ) artery + -ola -ole 1
Vocabulary lists containing arteriole
Human Anatomy and Physiology - High School
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Human Anatomy and Physiology - Middle School
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They also reduced heart muscle growth and scaring while prompting arteriole formation and growth.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
Once the efferent arteriole exits the glomerulus, it forms the peritubular capillary network, which surrounds and interacts with parts of the renal tubule.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
An artery branching off into an arteriole, which branches into a capillary bed.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The efferent arteriole is the connecting vessel between the glomerulus and the peritubular capillaries and vasa recta.
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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