English Explanatory Dictionary

capillary

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Resembling or pertaining to hair, especially in slenderness or fineness.
Of or pertaining to a narrow tube.
Of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.
Of or relating to capillaries in the body or to capillary action.

noun

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).
A tube or channel having a very small internal diameter, through which liquid can rise or be drawn by capillary action.

Pronunciation

/kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi/ /ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/ /ˈkæpəˌlɛri/ en-us-capillary.ogg /käˈpɪʎä.ɹi/ /käˈpɪʎä.ɾi/

Word forms

capillary more capillary most capillary capillaries

Etymology

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

Related words

Derived words

alveolocapillary arteriocapillary capillaric capillarily capillaritis capillarization capillary bed capillary refill cerebrocapillary choriocapillary elastocapillary electrocapillary endocapillary exocapillary extracapillary intercapillary intracapillary juxtacapillary magnetocapillary megacapillary microcapillary midcapillary multicapillary nanocapillary neocapillary neurocapillary noncapillary optocapillary pericapillary polycapillary postcapillary precapillary pseudocapillary thermocapillary transcapillary vasocapillary venocapillary capillarity capillary action capillary wave peritubular capillary

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