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cap⋅il⋅lar⋅y

  [kap-uh-ler-ee] adjective, noun, plural -lar⋅ies.
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–adjective
1. pertaining to or occurring in or as if in a tube of fine bore.
2. resembling a strand of hair; hairlike.
3. Physics.
a. pertaining to capillarity.
b. of or pertaining to the apparent attraction or repulsion between a liquid and a solid, observed in capillarity.
4. Anatomy. pertaining to a capillary or capillaries.
–noun
5. Anatomy. one of the minute blood vessels between the terminations of the arteries and the beginnings of the veins.
6. Also called capillary tube. a tube with a small bore.
Origin:
1570–80; capill(ar) (obs., < L capillāris pertaining to hair, equiv. to capill(us) hair + -āris -ar 1 ) + -ary
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cap·il·lar·y   (kāp'ə-lěr'ē)   
adj.  
  1. Relating to or resembling a hair; fine and slender.
  2. Having a very small internal diameter: a capillary tube.
  3. Anatomy Of or relating to the capillaries.
  4. Physics Of or relating to capillarity.
n.   pl. cap·il·lar·ies
  1. Anatomy One of the minute blood vessels that connect arterioles and venules. These blood vessels form an intricate network throughout the body for the interchange of various substances, such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, between blood and tissue cells.
  2. A tube with a very small internal diameter.

[From Latin capillāris, from capillus, hair.]
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Capillary

Cap"il*la*ry\ (k[a^]p"[i^]l*l[asl]*r[y^] or k[.a]*p[i^]l"l[.a]*r[y^]; 277), a. [L. capillaris, fr. capillus hair. Cf. Capillaire.]

1. Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

2. Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.

Capillary attraction, Capillary repulsion, the apparent attraction or repulsion between a solid and liquid caused by capillarity. See Capillarity, and Attraction.

Capillarity tubes. See the Note under Capillarity.

Capillary

Cap"il*la*ry\, n.; pl. Capillaries. 1. A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.

2. (Anat.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.
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Language Translation for : capillary
Spanish: capilar,
German: das Kapillargefäß,
Japanese: 毛細管
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capillary [(kap-uh-ler-ee)]

A thin tube, such as a blood vessel or a straw, through which fluids flow.

Note: The interaction between the fluid and the vessel walls produces a force that can lift the fluid up into the tube, a phenomenon known as capillary action.
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capillary 
1656, from L. capillaris "of hair," from capillus "hair" (of the head).
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Main Entry: 1cap·il·lary
Pronunciation: 'kap-&-"ler-E, Brit usu k&-'pil-&-rE
Function: adjective
1 a : resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form b : having a very small bore capillary tube>
2 : involving, held by, or resulting fromsurface tension
3 : of or relating to capillaries or capillarity

Main Entry: 2capillary
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -lar·ies
: a capillary tube; especially : any of thesmallest blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules and forming networks throughout the body
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capillary cap·il·lary (kāp'ə-lěr'ē)
adj.

  1. Of or relating to the capillaries.
  2. Relating to or resembling a hair; fine and slender.
n.
Blood capillary.

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capillary   (kāp'ə-lěr'ē)  Pronunciation Key 
Any of the tiny blood vessels that connect the smallest arteries (arterioles) to the smallest veins (venules). Capillaries form a network throughout the body for the exchange of oxygen, metabolic waste products, and carbon dioxide between blood and tissue cells.
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