capillary

Speech parts

1. capillary - Noun

2. capillary - Adjective

3. capillary - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.

A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hairlike thin slender capillary tube capillary vessel capillary tubing lode stripe vesicular fine hair tube narrow minute nerve
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Antonyms

large heavy solid substantial thick fat
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Hypernyms

tube tubing blood vessel

Hyponyms

glomerulus tomentum tomentum cerebri

Phrases with the word

capillary attraction electrophoresis capillary capillary electrophoresis capillary gel electrophoresis capillary isoelectric focusing capillary gas chromatography

Examples

a capillary tube Source: Internet

A collagen wound dressing might serve as a guide for orienting new collagen deposition and capillary growth. Source: Internet

A Desolvating Nebuliser (DSN) may also be used; this uses a long heated capillary, coated with a fluoropolymer membrane, to remove most of the solvent and reduce the load on the plasma. Source: Internet

Another method of making the test was by connecting the electrodes of a capillary electrometer to the two poles of a Daniell cell with a sulphate of cadmium solution. Source: Internet

Because of this counter-intuitive arrangement, light must first pass through and around the ganglion cells and through the thickness of the retina, (including its capillary vessels, not shown) before reaching the rods and cones. Source: Internet

Arterial plasma or serum levels are slightly higher than venous levels, and capillary levels are typically in between. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

capillaropathy capillaroscopic capillaroscopy capillary action capillary action works capillary artery