Capillary

What do we mean by capillary?

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. adjective

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. noun

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.

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

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

Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels. adjective

A narrow tube.

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

Making an ineffectual attack against a relatively minor aspect of an argument or adversary, leaving the object of the attack unaffected. An attack that is misplaced and off-target and does not address the fundamental issue. The tactical opposite of "going for the jugular." Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to capillary:
capillary, papillary, capillare, capillari, axillary, maxillary, capillarity, bacillary, pupillary, capitulary, capsulary, capilla, papillar, pillary, capillaire, carpellary, mamillary, capillaria, cepillar, c-pillar.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word capillary:
electrophoresis, hemangioma, fenestrated, wicking, capillaries, glomerulus, refill, endothelium, endothelial, meniscus, permeability, perfusion, malformation, vial, pores, chromatography, pore, hydrostatic, lymphatic, interstitial, condensation, plexus, venous, fragility, edema, porous, lumen, viscosity, viscous, filtration, mats, lymph, saturation, pulmonary, tube, wick, adhesion, sequencing, evaporation, liquid, fluorescence, hemorrhage, fluid, leak, vapor, bulb, aqueous, vascular, arterial, beds, electrode, renal, groundwater, curvature, diffusion, gel, wedge, veins, tension, membrane, infiltration, fringe, blood, glucose, equation, pressure, moisture, equilibrium, gravity, waves, radius, flow, lungs, tissues, ink, plasma, inflammation, buffer, bleeding, sample, bubble, action, surface, loops, molecules, gradient, polymer, bed, oxygen, mat, interface, tissue, vessels, mercury, cells, detection, syndrome, absorption, neurons, particles.

Words that rhyme with capillary:
dictionary, cherry, arbitrary, contemporary, ancillary, wary, itinerary, stationary, fiduciary, proprietary, carry, necessary, library, corollary, stationery, preliminary, contrary, extraordinary, sanctuary, mary, tertiary, primary, berry, vary, secretary, very, adversary, blueberry, ordinary, subsidiary, sedentary, estuary, scary, vocabulary, culinary, apothecary, fairy, tarry, cemetery, bury, temporary, beneficiary, monetary, salutary, dairy, harry, mercenary, literary, discretionary, solitary, pecuniary, aerie, merry, obituary, legendary, visionary, unitary, confectionery, prairie, parry, marry, lapidary, commentary, airy, emissary, unnecessary, seminary, luminary, canary, raspberry, nary, revolutionary, february, barre, military, tributary, ferry, strawberry, arie, eyrie, secondary, mulberry, gooseberry, reactionary, customary, imaginary, confectionary, missionary, epistolary, huckleberry, hereditary, judiciary, ary, hairy, veterinary, monastery, sanitary, pulmonary, dysentery, january.

Adjectives that are often used to describe capillary:
glomerular, fine, pulmonary, lymphatic, single, small, peritubular, long, narrow, alveolar, coated, fused, thin, silica, normal, walled, cylindrical, central, arterial, fenestrated, short, filled, luggin, retinal, venous, fetal, cerebral, open, sealed, heated, typical, true, closed, continuous, systemic, stainless, horizontal, dilated, peripheral, wide, adjacent, calibrated, nearest, circular, rich, vertical, blood, average, larger, performance, uncoated, smaller, connecting, numerous, inner, terminal, straight, mean, tubular, tiny, smallest, extensive, graduated, superficial, shaped, sinusoidal, maternal, minute, bare, packed, delayed, dense, tapered, uniform, empty, microfabricated, renal, automated.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective capillary:
action, permeability, pressure, electrophoresis, attraction, blood, flow, refill, water, tube, rise, membrane, vessels, fragility, chromatography, cells, condensation, bronchitis, endothelium, density, tubing, circulation, wall, hemangioma, dilatation, tubes, movement, network, resistance, electrometer, bleeding, plexus, column, membranes, damage, filtration, congestion, moisture, bed, hemangiomas, exchange, leakage, force, forces, columns, area, perfusion, growth, analysis, proliferation, tension, waves, lumen, volume, venules, nonperfusion, electrochromatography, fringe, hemorrhage, suction, formation, integrity, filling, dilation, spectrometry, porosity, leak, size, block, phenomena, pulsation, supply, closure, oozing, barrier, samples, zone, fig, figure, walls, test, puncture, vessel, loops, phase, length, syndrome, thickening, increases, recruitment, microscopy, glucose, depression, diameter, absorption, stasis.

Words that sound like capillary:
capillary, capillaries, caballero, caballeros, papillary, capillarity, cappelletti, capilla, compulsory, corollary, calory, cassowary, capoeira, kapler, calero, calori, castleberry, caprera, cavalero, cabaletta, capelin, kapila, pupillary, capelli, capellini, cappelli, couple up, cappellini, kiplinger, keep alive, calorie, calvary, cavalry, capri, clary, cobler, callery, axillary, apple tree, kapil, camilleri, colera, cappel, clari, cabler, kappel, catenary, capillary bed, kappler, cabbage tree, capsular, cackleberry, caprie, couple on, appleberry, capillary vein, cleri, coloury, capillary tube, copalite.