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

An artery branching off into an arteriole, which branches into a capillary bed.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

An arteriovenous anastomosis, which directly connects the arteriole with the venule, is shown at the bottom.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

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

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