Definitions for capillaries

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capillaries cap·il·lar·y

Spelling: [kap-uh-ler-ee]

IPA: /ˈkæp əˌlɛr i/

Capillaries is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 825 anagrams from letters in capillaries (aaceiillprs).

Definitions for capillaries

noun

1. Anatomy. one of the minute blood vessels between the terminations of the arteries and the beginnings of the veins.
2. Also called capillary tube. a tube with a small bore.

adjective

1. pertaining to or occurring in or as if in a tube of fine bore.
2. resembling a strand of hair; hairlike.
3. Physics. pertaining to capillarity. of or relating to the apparent attraction or repulsion between a liquid and a solid, observed in capillarity.
4. Anatomy. pertaining to a capillary or capillaries.

Origin of capillaries

1570-80; capill(ar) (obsolete, Latin capillāris pertaining to hair, equivalent to capill(us) hair + -āris -ar¹) + -ary

Examples for capillaries

The veins take the blood from the capillaries in all parts of the body.

Hence it is argued that their capillaries show the least permeability.

From the capillaries the blood flows into the veins and back to the heart.

The whole stream, on the other hand, passes through the capillaries of the lungs.

This vein runs to the liver, where it breaks up into capillaries.

Well, Malpighi tried to discover the capillaries by this method, and failed.

And the first of these is the proportion of arterial to venous blood in the capillaries.

They then carry the air through the arteries to the capillaries.

This it does by passing it through the walls of the capillaries.

He knew nothing of the vessels which we now speak of as capillaries.