Thesaurus: capillary

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1. a. 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. a. Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.
3. n. A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
4. n. 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.
5. adj. of or relating to hair
6. adj. long and slender with a very small internal diameter
7. n. a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
8. n. any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules
9. 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 soild and liquid caused bycapillarity. See Capillarity, and Attraction. -- Capillarity tubes. See the Note under Capillarity. 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.
10. A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallestblood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for thesmallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.
11. j:47/n:53 n. a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action n. any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules a. of or relating to hair s. long and slender with a very small internal diameter