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OED
ˈveinulet rare.
f. vein n. Cf. venule.
A small vein or veinlet.
Recent Dicts. also give veinule ‘a minute vein, a venule’, as a term of Bot. and Geol. (perh. after F. veinule).
1668 Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. ii. vi. 105 There is plenty of blood‥running back from the remotest Veinulets or smallest branches of the Veins. 1846–50 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 85 The secondary branches, or those sent off from the veinlets, are the veinulets.
August 23, 2010