capillary English

Meaning capillary meaning

What does capillary mean?

Definitions in simple English

capillary Noun

— A tiny tube in the body that blood travels through. It connects the end of an artery to the beginning of a vein. Blood cells have to go through each tiny capillary one by one.

capillary Adjective

— Looking like a strand of hair. The capillary cracks in the old plate of glass made me think that it would break if I touched it.

— Having to do with a capillary. The body's capillary system must reach every cell.

capillary

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

— adjective of or relating to hair

— adjective long and slender with a very small internal diameter a capillary tube

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

Synonyms capillary synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as capillary?

capillary English » English

hairlike

capillary vessel

capillary tube

vein

capillary tubing

artery

venule

phloem

hairline

duct

blood vessel

Topics capillary topics

What do people use capillary to talk about?

Person Body Internal organs

Heart

• What are the parts of the blood vessels?
  circulatory system blood vessel aorta vein venous artery arterial capillary jugular pericardium pericardial

Examples capillary examples

How do I use capillary in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Incidentally, that the gills of fish are bright red is because there are many 'capillary vessels' collected there, the same as for lungs.

Movie subtitles

It must be capillary action.

Yes, we're entering a capillary.

Capillary dilation of the so-called blush response?

There's been some capillary reaction here.

And capillary integrity too unpredictable to try a resect.

It's a broken capillary festival.

Capillary refill's poor.

I think you just burst a capillary.

Quick! We can escape through that capillary into the sinus.

Capillary action.

Capillary action pulled the solution into the threads, where it dried into white crystals.

It choked vein in her hand. Leading to complete capillary constriction, never making it anywhere near her heart.

It's just a broken capillary.

The hot flame moves downward, thus melting the wax, which rises through the wick through capillary action.

Needle came down through the shoulder- blade and reached the vertebrae capillary net.

To get a little bit of capillary blood. If everyone had such pretty earlobes like Metze does, then we wouldn't have any problems.

I was, uh, just checking the baby's capillary refills-- no, it's good, it's good.

The dye has reached the retinal capillary bed.

Her capillary vessels are very superficial.

Capillary refill less than two seconds.

So I'll run a capillary electrophoresis and get back to you.

What a magnificent auxiliary capillary pump.

The capillary can brake.

Capillary refill's bad.

How's the capillary refill?

He stabbing her in the back. Needle came down through the shoulder-blade and reached the vertebrae capillary net.

It can cause capillary damage if you use it long enough.

Well, that would mean letting the capillary damage issue go public.

Coulda ended up with irreversible capillary damage.

News and current affairs

They repeated the X-ray experiment, but with the crystal surrounded by its mother-liquor and sealed in a glass capillary, obtaining patterns with large numbers of crystalline reflections.