arteriole
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
- VHOG:0001763
- TAO:0002138
- MESH:D001160
- FMA:63182
- BTO:0001997
- NCIT:C12672
- EMAPA:35146
- ZFA:0005255
- UMLS:C0003847 (ncithesaurus:Arteriole)
- MA:0000063
- Wikipedia:Arteriole
- AAO:0010253
- SCTID:337724002
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
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]
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Illu_capillary.jpg, Illu:capillary.jpg
arteriola
uberon
UBERON:0001980
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl
Arteriole
Term relations
- blood microvessel
- arterial blood vessel
- contributes to morphology of some artery
- connects some artery
- connects some capillary