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capillary
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Any of the smallest blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0073040584 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/137 ]
Term info
Label
capillary
Synonyms
- blood capillary
- capillary vessel
Subsets
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
RO 0002175
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
depicted by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/A_red_blood_cell_in_a_capillary,_pancreatic_tissue_-_TEM.jpg
editor note
not all sources agree capillary is a blood vessel - consider adopting EMAPA superclass of vascular element
external definition
Any of the tiny blood vessels connecting the arterioles to the venules.[AAO]
has obo namespace
uberon
homology notes
The appearance of Chordata and subsequently the vertebrates is accompanied by a rapid structural diversification of this primitive linear heart: looping, unidirectional circulation, an enclosed vasculature, and the conduction system.[well established][VHOG]
id
UBERON:0001982
see also
https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/2186
structure notes
capillaries lack tunica media and tunica adventitia; only the endothelial wall of the tunica intima belongs