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• Artery — A vessel that carries blood that is high in oxygen content away from the heart to the farthest reaches of the body. Since blood in arteries is usually full of oxygen, the hemoglobin in the red blood cells is oxygenated. The resultant form of… …   Medical dictionary

• sheathed arterioles — see under artery …   Medical dictionary

• sheathed capillaries — see under artery …   Medical dictionary

• Schweigger-Seidel sheath — a spindle shaped thickening in the walls of the second portion of the arterial branches forming the penicilli in the spleen; see sheathed artery, under artery. Called also ellipsoid …   Medical dictionary

• Reticular fiber — Reticular fibers or reticulin is a histological term used to describe a type of structural fiber composed of type III collagen. Reticular fibers crosslink to form a fine meshwork (reticulum). This network acts as a supporting mesh in soft tissues …   Wikipedia

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• sheath — 1. Any enveloping structure, such as the membranous covering of a muscle, nerve, or blood vessel. Any sheathlike structure. SYN: vagina (1). 2. The prepuce of male animals, especially of the horse. 3. A specially designed tu …   Medical dictionary

• Architecture and Civil Engineering — ▪ 2009 Introduction Architecture       For Notable Civil Engineering Projects in work or completed in 2008, see Table (Notable Civil Engineering Projects (in work or completed, 2008)).        Beijing was the centre of the world of architecture… …   Universalium

• Soft palate — Lateral wall of nasal cavity. (Soft palate visible in lower right) …   Wikipedia

• Microfilaria — may also refer to an informal collective group genus name, proposed by Cobbold in 1882. While a convenient category for newly discovered microfilariae which can not be assigned to a known species because the adults are unknown,[1] it is seldom… …   Wikipedia