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Sinusoid (blood vessel) — A sinusoid is a small blood vessel similar to a capillary but with a discontinuous endothelium.Sinusoids are found in the liver, lymphoid tissue, endocrine organs, and hematopoietic organs such as the bone marrow and the spleen. Sinusoids found… … Wikipedia
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
Liver sinusoid — [ thumb|300px|Sinusoid of a rat liver with fenestrated endothelial cells. Fenestrae are approx 100 nm diameter, and the sinusoidal width 5 µm. Scanning electron micrograph by Robin Fraser, University of Otago.] A liver sinusoid is a type of… … Wikipedia
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
locomotion — /loh keuh moh sheuhn/, n. the act or power of moving from place to place. [1640 50; see LOCOMOTIVE, MOTION] * * * Any of various animal movements that result in progression from one place to another. Locomotion is classified as either… … Universalium
Clenshaw–Curtis quadrature — and Fejér quadrature are methods for numerical integration, or quadrature , that are based on an expansion of the integrand in terms of Chebyshev polynomials. Equivalently, they employ a change of variables x = cos θ and use a discrete… … Wikipedia
Microvessel — or microvasculature can refer to: Arteriole, a small diameter blood vessel that extends and branches out from an artery and leads to capillaries Capillary, the smallest blood vessels Metarteriole, a vessel that links arterioles and capillaries… … Wikipedia
sinus — 1. [TA] A channel for the passage of blood or lymph, without the coats of an ordinary vessel; e.g., blood passages in the gravid uterus or those in the cerebral meninges. 2. [TA] A cavity or … 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
