capillary

IPA: kˈæpʌɫɛri

A narrow tube.
(anatomy) 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).

Examples of "capillary" in Sentences

This is called _capillary attraction_, the word capillary meaning a hair.
A capillary from the tongue of the frog before and after mechanical irritation.
A capillary from the tongue of the frog before and after stimulation with urethane.
Hemangioma is an all-encompassing term, while the term capillary malformation better describes one of the hallmarks of Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome.
The capillary walls widen so forcefully that they become permeable to blood plasma, so that the capillary is at last filled by a solid mass of corpuscles.
36For the preparation of radium C, Dagmar adopted Pettersson's innovative method of using thin capillary tubes filled with radium emanation and dry oxygen.
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.
It was so friendly that Bates mentioned to Pettersson their Cambridge stock in capillary spent radon tubes from hospitals used in the preparation of polonium.
We therefore thank Yan and colleagues and agree with them that the term capillary malformation should be used in the future to define the cutaneous feature of Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome.