ARTERIOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arteriole mean? 

• ARTERIOLE (noun)
  The noun ARTERIOLE has 1 sense:

1. one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries

  Familiarity information: ARTERIOLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTERIOLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arteriola; arteriole; capillary artery

Hypernyms ("arteriole" is a kind of...):

arteria; arterial blood vessel; artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body)

Derivation:

arteriolar (of or relating to or involving arterioles)

 Context examples 

They modulate the tone of vascular smooth muscle cells, which in turn controls blood pressure and blood flow by adjusting the caliber of arteries and arterioles.

(Ion Channels in Vascular Endothelium Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The deposition of hyaline material in the wall of the efferent arterioles.

(Efferent Arteriolar Hyalinosis, NCI Thesaurus)

An alpha-1-adrenergic antagonist that acts by blocking alpha-adrenergic receptors in the smooth muscle of blood vessels (arteries, arterioles and veins), gastrointestinal tract, and radial smooth muscle of the iris.

(Dapiprazole Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The decreased blood flow may be due to narrowing of the coronary arteries, to obstruction by a thrombus, or less commonly, to diffuse narrowing of arterioles and other small vessels within the heart.

(Ischemic Heart Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Isradipine blocks the calcium entry through the calcium ion channels of coronary and peripheral vascular smooth muscle, thereby dilating coronary arteries and peripheral arterioles.

(Isradipine, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon nasal or ocular administration, oxymetazoline constricts the arterioles in the nose and eye, resulting in decreased nasal and conjunctival congestion, respectively.

(Oxymetazoline, NCI Thesaurus)

Severe hypertension characterized by papilledema and necrosis of small arteries and arterioles.

(Malignant Hypertension, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An area of hepatocytes that are closest to an arteriole.

(Liver Acinus Zone 1, NCI Thesaurus)

There was severe diffuse diabetic glomerulosclerosis and severe hypertensive changes in arteries and arterioles characterised by fibrinoid necrosis and/or onion skin lesions as well as smooth muscle hyperplasia.

(CRDH, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

The deposition of hyaline material in the wall of the arterioles.

(Hyaline Arteriolosclerosis, NCI Thesaurus)