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capillary

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Capillaries ( in US ; in UK ) are the smallest of a body's blood vessels (and lymph vessels ) that make up the microcirculation . Their endothelial linings are only one cell layer thick. These microvessels, measuring around 5 to 10 micrometres (µm) in diameter, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action [syn: capillary tube , capillary tubing ] any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules [syn: capillary vessel ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES capillary action EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Blood fills the space and clots, capillaries grow into the clot and form granulation tissue. ▪ Fibrous tissue replaces this, the capillaries heal and contract down over a period ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Capillary \Cap"il*la*ry\, n.; pl. Capillaries . A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute. (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 ...

Usage examples of capillary.

The secretion with animal matter in solution is then drawn by capillary attraction over the whole surface of the leaf, causing all the glands to secrete and allowing them to absorb the diffused animal matter.

The aqueous humor leaks into the anterior chamber from nets of capillaries in the ciliary body and out again through a small duct near the point where the iris meets the cornea.

The blood flows into the capillary vessels in greater abundance than is natural, and those vessels become over-dilated and enfeebled and so altered in their sensibility as to produce local excitement and pain.

The hemoglobin takes up molecular oxygen in the lung capillaries, ozonizes it, and since hemin is easily reduced, the red cells give up oxygen to the muscle cells that need it, in return for carbon dioxide.

CERN, Maximilian Kohler, opened his eyes to the cool rush of cromolyn and leukotriene in his body, dilating his bronchial tubes and pulmonary capillaries.

The director of CERN, Maximilian Kohler, opened his eyes to the cool rush of cromolyn and leukotriene in his body, dilating his bronchial tubes and pulmonary capillaries.

I read the extract half-heartedly and found it sheer gobbledegook, with terms such as capillary beds, adrenaline and noradrenaline, biochemical responses, inhibitory cells and the like.

The Focused were being herded in groups of four and five, first out of the little capillary hallways that led to their roomlets, then into the tributary halls and finally into the main corridors.

Bernie down the hall in the toilet, who has all kinds of urolagnia jokes to tell, his mother Brenda in the kitchen who talks of hashish hush puppies, dildos rigged to pump floods of paregoric orgasm to the capillaries of the womb, prayers to Astarte and Lilith, queen of the night, reaches into the true Night of the Other, cold and naked on linoleum floors after days without sleep, the dreams and tears become a natural state.

These convey to the lungs blood that has already been supplied with oxygen, passing it into the capillaries in the walls of the bronchi, bronchial tubes, and large blood vessels, as well as the connective tissue between the lobes of the lungs.

Is it strange, when woman has thus exhausted her energies, when her body trembles with fatigue and her mind is agitated with responsibilities, that the menses capriciously return, or the uterus is unable to withstand congestion, and capillary hemorrhage becomes excessive?

Europe is due to the perfect integration of Roman capillary habits with the general morphology of the characters he usually portrays.

Out of red blood, blood-vessels are formed, and from the incipient development of the heart follow faint lines of arteries, and the engineers of nutrition survey a circulatory system, perfecting the vascular connections by supplementing the arteries with a complete net-work of veins and capillaries.

He had a huge, jowly face with a splotchy red nose blistered with fiery capillaries.

Dura felt the prickle of cooling superfluid capillaries opening all over her body.