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arteriole
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The smallest division of the artery located between the muscular arteries and the capillaries[GO]. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0014830 ]
Term info
Label
arteriole
Subsets
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
depicted by
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Illu_capillary.jpg
external definition
Small, terminal branch of an artery which generally connects to capillaries.[AAO], Multi-tissue structure part of the blood vasculature, feeds into capillaries. Arterioles carry blood away from the heart.[TAO]
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
arteriola
id
UBERON:0001980
Term relations
Subclass of:
- arterial blood vessel
- contributes to morphology of some artery
- connects some artery
- connects some capillary