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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
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]
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
venula
id
UBERON:0001979