- sheathed arteries
- arterial branches having spindle-shaped thickenings in their walls (Schweigger-Seidel sheaths) and forming the penicilli of the spleen; called also ellipsoid or sheathed arterioles.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
sheathed arteries
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