capillary

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. Source: opted

2. a. Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action. Source: opted

3. n. A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

5. adj. of or relating to hair Source: wordnet

6. adj. long and slender with a very small internal diameter Source: wordnet

7. n. a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action Source: wordnet

8. n. any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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. Source: adambom

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 Source: ecdict

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