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venule

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One of the minute vessels that collect deoxygenated blood from the capillary plexuses returns it to the veins [ ]

Term info

Label

venule

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

depicted by

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Illu_capillary.jpg

external definition

Multi-tissue structure part of the blood vasculature formed by the anastomosis of capillaries. Venules carry blood toward the heart.[TAO]

id

UBERON:0001979