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fenestrated — Having fenestrae or windowlike openings. * * * fen·es·trat·ed fen ə .strāt əd adj having one or more openings or pores <fenestrated blood capillaries> <a fenestrated catheter> * * * fen·es·trat·ed (fenґəs trāt″əd) … Medical dictionary
fenestrated — adjective Date: circa 1852 having one or more openings or pores < fenestrated blood capillaries > … New Collegiate Dictionary
continuous capillaries — one of the two major types of capillaries, found in muscle, skin, lung, central nervous system, and other tissues, and characterized by an uninterrupted endothelium, a continuous basal lamina, fine filaments, and numerous pinocytotic vesicles. Cf … Medical dictionary
Capillary — Capillaries are the smallest of a body s blood vessels, measuring 5 10 μm in diameter, which connect arterioles and venules, and enable the interchange of water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and many other nutrient and waste chemical substances… … Wikipedia
Capillary — One of the tiny blood vessels that connect the arterioles (the smallest divisions of the arteries) and the venules (the smallest divisions of the veins). The capillaries form a fine network in many parts of the body. Although minute, the… … Medical dictionary
organ — Any part of the body exercising a specific function, as of respiration, secretion, or digestion. SYN: organum [TA], organon. [L. organum, fr. G. organon, a tool, instrument] accessory organs 1. SYN … Medical dictionary
Blood-ocular barrier — The blood ocular barrier is a barrier created by endothelium of capillaries of the retina and iris, ciliary epithelium and retinal pigment epithelium. It controls the passage of substances from the blood into the eye. It is a physical barrier… … Wikipedia
Cherry hemangioma — Cherry angioma Classification and external resources A cherry angioma. ICD 9 448.1 … Wikipedia
Blood-retinal barrier — The blood retinal barrier, or the BRB, is part of the blood ocular barrier that consists of cells that are joined tightly together in order to prevent certain substances from entering the tissue of the retina. [Biologyonline.org.… … Wikipedia
Glomerulus — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = glomerulus renis GraySubject = 253 GrayPage = 1221 Caption = Glomerulus. Caption2 = Distribution of bloodvessels in cortex of kidney. Precursor = Metanephric blastema System = Artery = Vein = Nerve = Lymph … Wikipedia
