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capillary

/kap-uh-ler-ee/US // ˈkæp əˌlɛr i //UK // (kəˈpɪlərɪ) //

毛细血管,毛细管,毛细血管的,微血管

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or occurring in or as if in a tube of fine bore.
    • : resembling a strand of hair; hairlike.
    • : Physics. pertaining to capillarity. of or relating to the apparent attraction or repulsion between a liquid and a solid, observed in capillarity.
    • : Anatomy. pertaining to a capillary or capillaries.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cap·il·lar·ies.

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

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Examples

  • Upon landing on her host, she uses her proboscis to detect the very small, thin-walled blood vessels called capillaries that crisscross our bodies just below the skin.

  • Most drivers using this road are headed to and from a handful of capillary valleys in the Pech.

  • That was an axiom on which was founded a vigorous war against all capillary adornments.

  • The leakage takes place, if not along cracks, through capillary channels, which are everywhere present in sea-ice.

  • Of course you have to keep wetting it, for hair will not draw oil fast enough by capillary action.

  • These craft look as though they ought to sink by mere capillary attraction.

  • This is called capillary attraction, the word capillary meaning a hair.