1. capillary - Noun
2. capillary - Adjective
3. capillary - Adjective Satellite
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 dictionarya 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