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Capillary

//kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or pertaining to hair, especially in slenderness or fineness.
  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to a narrow tube.
  3. 3
    Of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.
  4. 4
    Of or relating to capillaries in the body or to capillary action.
Adjective
  1. 1
    long and slender with a very small internal diameter wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to hair wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the small blood vessels (from 5 to 10 micrometres/micrometers (μm) in diameter) that connect arteries to veins (They are the smallest blood vessels in the body: they convey blood between the arterioles and venules).
  2. 2
    a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action wordnet
  3. 3
    A tube or channel having a very small internal diameter, through which liquid can rise or be drawn by capillary action.
  4. 4
    any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin capillāris (“pertaining to the hair”), from capillus (“the hair, properly of the head”), from caput (“head”).

Etymology 2

From Latin capillāris (“pertaining to the hair”), from capillus (“the hair, properly of the head”), from caput (“head”).

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