Crossword-Solution: ARTERIOLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Arteriole | n. | A small artery. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “ARTERIOLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Anatomical branch | 1 answer |
| Blood vessel connected to a capillary | 1 answer |
| Capillary connection | 1 answer |
| Very small blood vessel | 1 answer |
| any of the small subdivisions of an artery that form thin-walled vessels ending in capillaries | 1 answer |
| minute artery | 1 answer |
| Small blood vessel | 2 answers |
| CAPILLARY | 6 answers |
| BLOOD VESSEL OBSTRUCTION | 10 answers |
| blood-vessel | 12 answers |
| Blood vessel | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with ARTERIOLE (5)
Such a deposition of layer upon layer of cells in an arteriole and the resulting fibrosis leads to the condition of disappearance of the lumen of the vessel, endarteritis obliterans.
According to the accepted pathology, we have in angina pectoris vasomotoria, sudden spasms of the arterioles; from this an increase of the arterial tension; to overcome this is more forcible and rapid action of the heart; as the arteriole spasm persists and doubtless deepens in intensity, distension of the left ventricle follows, and from overdistension the agonizing breast-pang, and even death from stoppage of the heart's diastole.
When this sudden systemic arteriole spasm extends to the coronary vessels in a heart whose walls are diseased, a fatal attack of angina with the heart full of blood may be induced.
These vessels contain red blood cells almost exclusively, and on account of the partial, occasionally complete, loss of the lining epithelium, the alveolar wall appears as a huge, dilated arteriole (101) separating the lakes of coagulated material in the spaces (Fig.
The arteriole that enters into the structure of the glomerule is lined with endothelial cells and is surrounded by a few muscle fibers and a fine network of connective tissue.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1985–2013).