adjective. Relating to or resembling a hair; fine and slender.

adjective. Having a very small internal diameter.

adjective. Of or relating to the capillaries.

adjective. Of or relating to capillarity.

noun. One of the minute blood vessels that connect arterioles and venules. These blood vessels form an intricate network throughout the body for the interchange of various substances, such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, between blood and tissue cells.

noun. A tube with a very small internal diameter.

Pertaining to or resembling hair: as, a capillary lotion; capillary fibers or threads.

Specifically, in botany, resembling hair in the manner of growth: applied in this sense by Ray, Boerhaave, and other early botanists to ferns.

Resembling a single hair; specifically, in anatomy, having (as a tube) so small a bore that water cannot be poured into it, and will not run through it.

Pertaining to a capillary or to capillaries: as, capillary circulation.

Pertaining to the phenomena of the rise of fluids in tubes and chinks, and, more generally, to the collecting of liquids in drops, their spreading over surfaces (as oil on water), and various other phenomena explicable proximately by surface-tension and ultimately by cohesion and adhesion, considered as forces acting at finite but insensible distances.

In surgery, linear: descriptive of a fracture of the skull without separation of the parts of the injured bones.

noun. pl. capillaries (-riz).

noun. A tube with a small bore. Specifically

noun. In anatomy: One of the minute blood-vessels which form a network between the terminations of the arteries and the beginnings of the veins.

noun. One of the minute lymphatic ducts.

noun. One of the intercellular passages in the liver which unite to form the bile-ducts.

noun. In botany, a fern: especially applied to such ferns as grow like tufts of hair on walls. Sir T. Browne. See I., 2.

noun. A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.

noun. 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.

adjective. Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore.

adjective. Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels.

adjective. the apparent attraction or repulsion between a solid and liquid caused by capillarity. See Capillarity, and Attraction.

adjective. undefined

adjective. See the Note under Capillarity.

adjective. of or pertaining to hair

adjective. pertaining to a narrow tube

noun. A narrow tube

noun. Any of the small blood vessels that connect arteries to veins

noun. a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action

adjective. long and slender with a very small internal diameter

noun. any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules

adjective. of or relating to hair

"Hemangioma is an all-encompassing term, while the term capillary malformation better describes one of the hallmarks of Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome."

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