A metarteriole is a short microvessel in the microcirculation that links arterioles and capillaries. Instead of a continuous tunica media, they have individual...

arteriovenous fistula) or innate (such as the arteriovenous shunt of a metarteriole); and it may be natural (such as the aforementioned examples) or artificial...

into peripheral vascular beds, lowering overall systemic pressure. A "metarteriole" is an arteriole which bypasses capillary circulation. Surface chemistry...

normal anatomic shunt as opposed to an abnormal arteriovenous fistula. A metarteriole is another type. Glomus tumor Standring, Susan (2016). Gray's anatomy :...

through arteriovenous anastomoses or through preferential flow through metarterioles. If the sphincter is damaged or cannot contract, blood can flow into...

blood back to the heart through the venae cavae. In the mesentery, metarterioles form an additional stage between arterioles and capillaries. Individual...

complex, with sphincters around the metarterioles themselves. In fishes and salamanders, due to the lack of metarterioles, all the blood passes through the...

blood supply directly to a collecting venule. This is achieved by a metarteriole that supplies around a hundred capillaries. At their junctions are precapillary...

within organ tissues. The microvessels include terminal arterioles, metarterioles, capillaries, and venules. Arterioles carry oxygenated blood to the...

Capillary Metarteriole Precapillary sphincter Sakai T, Hosoyamada Y (September 2013). "Are the precapillary sphincters and metarterioles universal components...