sinusoidal capillary
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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
sinusoid — 1. Resembling a sinus. 2. Sinusoidal capillary; a thin walled terminal blood vessel having an irregular and larger caliber than an ordinary capillary; its endothelial cells have large gaps and the basal lamina is either discontinuous or absent.… … Medical dictionary
Coccygeal glomus — Section of an irregular nodule of the glomus coccygeum. X 85. The section shows the fibrous covering of the nodule, the bloodvessels within it, and the epithelial cells of which it is constituted. Latin glomus coccygeum … Wikipedia
glomus coccygeum — glomus coc·cy·ge·um käk sij ē əm n a small mass of vascular tissue situated near the tip of the coccyx called also coccygeal body, coccygeal gland, Luschka s gland * * * [TA] coccygeal body: an oval structure consisting of irregular masses of … Medical dictionary
vas sinusoideum — [TA] sinusoid: a form of terminal blood channel consisting of a large, irregular anastomosing vessel, having a lining of reticuloendothelium but little or no adventitia; sinusoids are found in the liver, adrenals, heart, parathyroid, carotid… … Medical dictionary
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