Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small vein, especially one joining capillaries to larger veins.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small vein; a veinlet; in entomology, same as nervule.
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy A small vein, especially one that connects capillaries to a larger vein.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a minute vein continuous with a capillary
Etymologies
- Latin vēnula, diminutive of vēna, vein. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Just as the human body has different types of blood vessels arteries, veins, arterioles, venule, capillaries, an effective, usable transit system must be multimodal.”
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“Connective tissue between venule and capillary filled with migrated leucocytes; e, e, Connective tissue with less infiltration; f,”
“Fig. 19-9 sensory nerve ending living epidermal cells dead cell layer sebaceous gland capillaries arteriole venule hair follicle muscle (pulls hair upright) sweat gland hair shaft epidermis dermis subdermal connective and adipose tissue capillary bed”
“A large solid recurrent HB 11 years after the primary total removal in a 66-year-old non-VHL patient. von Hippel-Lindau disease • HBs of the retina • Figure 8 • A typical mature HB with a draining arteriole and venule in a 40-year-old non-VHL patient: ophthalmoscopic view (a), and FA (b) before treatment; ophthalmoscopic view (c) and FA (d) at two months after cryocoagulation, showing narrowing of the feeders.”
“From this moment the 6 cm part of jejunum, which was going to be studied was identified and care was taken that the vasculature of the studied jejunum consisted of 1 central mesenteric arteriole and venule.”
“Pockets of dead tissue, perhaps caused by venule occlusions, are often seen in autopsies of people who had dementia late in life, says Nguyen, and now researchers have a way to study this phenomenon.”
“These findings suggest that small occlusions in the venule system may play a role in cognitive dysfunction.”
“E, F: In the hippocampus, on day 8 post-injection, three cuffed vessels harboring a venule-like morphology (white stars in E) are surrounded by CFSE”
“One of the cuffed vessels presents a venule-like morphology (arrow).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘venule’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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vein words
scovany, flooking, flos-ferri, flucan, venule, varix, lode, epigenesis, shoad, stope, costeaning, undercut and 1 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
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ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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My life
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deconstruct, venule, sensory, virial, connector, epistemology, discontinuity, derivative, holistic, psychosocial
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