- Post-capillary
venules are the
smallest of the
veins with a
diameter of
between 10 and 30
micrometres (μm). When the post-capillary
venules increase in diameter...
- kidney, (vasa
recta renis) are the
straight arterioles, and the
straight venules of the kidney, – a
series of
blood vessels in the
blood supply of the kidney...
- High
endothelial venules (HEV) are
specialized post-capillary
venules characterized by
plump endothelial cells as
opposed to the
usual flatter endothelial...
- large, medium, and small.
Smaller veins are
called venules, and the
smallest the post-capillary
venules are
microscopic that make up the
veins of the microcirculation...
- capillaries, and
venules.
Arterioles carry oxygenated blood to the capillaries, and
blood flows out of the
capillaries through venules into veins.[citation...
- than
venules,
owing to
their thick circular smooth muscle layer (tunica media). The
blood exiting the
efferent arteriole enters a
renal venule, which...
-
smallest branches of the
arteries (arterioles) to
those of the
veins (
venules).
Other substances which cross capillaries include water, oxygen, carbon...
- in
clinical practice,
usually caused by
inflammation of post-capillary
venules in the dermis). "Leukocytoclastic" (literally
meaning 'leukocyte-destroying')...
-
exchange of
water and
chemicals between the
blood and the
tissues occurs; the
venules; and the veins,
which carry blood from the
capillaries back
towards the...
- veins;
other arteries,
smaller arterioles,
capillaries that join with
venules (small veins), and
other veins. The
circulatory system is
closed in vertebrates...
