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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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Cultural Dictionary

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.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Word Origin & History

capillary 
1656, from L. capillaris "of hair," from capillus "hair" (of the head).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

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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