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vein
(Anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart
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venule
Any of the smaller veins that connect the capillaries to larger veins.
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arteriole
Any of the smaller branches of an artery, especially one that connects with a capillary.
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artery
The definition of an artery is a blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart, or the primary path to or from something.
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capillary
Any of the tiny blood vessels that connect the smallest arteries (arterioles) to the smallest veins (venules). Capillaries form a network throughout the body for the exchange of oxygen, metabolic waste products, and carbon dioxide between blood and tissue cells.
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metarteriole
An arterial capillary; a short vessel linking arterioles and venules.
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  • Tentacular blood-vessel arising from the cut arm-vessel in the small arm-sinus.

  • His health was never very strong, and in 1858 he broke a blood-vessel.

  • Beneath each food-groove was a radial water-vessel and probably a nerve and blood-vessel, all which structures passed either between certain regularly arranged thecal plates, or along a furrow floored by those plates, which were then in two alternating series.

  • Sulla sent for him and had him strangled in his presence; in his excitement he broke a blood-vessel and died on the following day.

  • In this worm the ventral blood-vessel is so swollen as to occupy nearly the whole of the available coelom.

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