CAPILLARY
\kˈapɪləɹi], \kˈapɪləɹi], \k_ˈa_p_ɪ_l_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of CAPILLARY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
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long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube"
By Princeton University
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a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
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long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube"
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(anatomy) "a capillary network"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
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Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.
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A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
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Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.
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A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A tube with a small bore; one of the minute blood-vessels connecting the arteries with the veins.
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Resembling a hair; slender; pertaining to a minute tube, or to capillarity.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Of, pertaining to, or like hair; slender; having a hair like bore, as a tube.
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A minute vessel, as those connecting the arteries and veins; any tube with a fine bore.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Minute; hair-like.
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One of the minute thin-walled vessels which form networks in various parts of the body, e.g. blood, lymph, or biliary capillaries.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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From capillus, 'a hair.' (F.) Capillaire, Hair-like; small.
By Robley Dunglison
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Pertaining to a hair; hair-like.
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Any one of the minute vessels which conduct the blood from the arteries to the veins.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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(Adj.) Pertaining to the hair or to very thin hairlike filaments.
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(Adj.) Of hairlike fineness.
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(N.) A minute vessel, especially a blood vessel of the system connecting the termination of the arteries with the radicles of the veins
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
