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afferent arteriole

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arteriole
a minute arterial branch.

afferent arteriole
enters the glomerulus at the vascular pole and divides into capillaries which subsequently merge to form efferent arterioles.
efferent arteriole
derived from the glomerular capillaries in the renal glomeruli, these arterioles exit from the glomerulus at its vascular pole.
straight arteriole
see arteriola rectae renis.

afferent arteriole
Anatomy A blood vessel in the kidney that supplies blood to glomeruli


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Histologically, the glomus tumor is made up of an endothelium-lined vascular bed, which consists of an afferent arteriole, an anastomotic vessel, and a venule surrounded by epithelioid glomus cells.
 
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