venule


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
venule /ˈvɛnjuːl/
noun Anatomy a very small vein, especially one collecting blood from the capillaries.
– origin C19: from L. venula, dimin. of vena ‘vein’.
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