Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In anatomy, a little artery; an arteriole.

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  • noun A small artery with a muscular wall.

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  • noun anatomy An arteriole.

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  • noun one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries

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  • Nunc fi febum inter arterioiam minimam, du&umque excretorium nufquam in nodulum intumefcit, fequitur, nufquam etiam receptacu - lum inter finem arteriola», duclulique excretorii originem interponi, adeoque ne - que glandulofam fabricam eo loco effe, & minimse arteriola? minimum excreto - rium du&um continuari.

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  • Secretio adeo a vulgari fanguinis circuitu haclenus differt, quod ia ifto quidem arteriola minima, cylindrica, in venam fibi aqualem, aut ampliorem continuetur, quaj fmguinem recipere apta fit, in humorum vero feparatione du - clus excrecorius, rubro vafculo arteriofo minor, tamquam ramus. ex eo vafculo prodeat.

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  • &c. fcukim lit ex rubra arteriola ortum, ferpentinum,

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  • «em fupereffe celeritatem, qua» eft in minima arteriola rubra: fit ea celeritas ejufmodi, ut vigecuplo ientius, quam per cor fanguis per ejufmodi arteriolam

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