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Grammar : Noun
Spell : kap-uh-ler-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæp əˌlɛr i

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Origin :
  • 1650s, "of or pertaining to the hair," from Latin capillaris "of hair," from capillus "hair" (of the head); perhaps related to caput "head" (but de Vaan finds this "difficult on the formal side" and "far from compelling, since capillus is a diminutive, and would mean 'little head', which hardly amounts to 'hair'"). Borrowed earlier as capillar (14c.). Meaning "taking place in capillary vessels" is from 1809. Capillary attraction attested from 1813. As a noun, "capillary blood vessel," from 1660s.
  • As in vein : noun blood vessel
  • As in blood vessel : noun blood flow pathway
Example sentences :
  • He knew nothing of the vessels which we now speak of as capillaries.
  • Extract from : « Fathers of Biology » by Charles McRae
  • Well, Malpighi tried to discover the capillaries by this method, and failed.
  • Extract from : « Experiments on Animals » by Stephen Paget
  • Hence it is argued that their capillaries show the least permeability.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 2 » by Various
  • This vein runs to the liver, where it breaks up into capillaries.
  • Extract from : « Elementary Zoology, Second Edition » by Vernon L. Kellogg
  • The whole stream, on the other hand, passes through the capillaries of the lungs.
  • Extract from : « Physiology » by Ernest G. Martin
  • This it does by passing it through the walls of the capillaries.
  • Extract from : « A Civic Biology » by George William Hunter
  • And the first of these is the proportion of arterial to venous blood in the capillaries.
  • Extract from : « Omphalos » by Philip Henry Gosse
  • From the capillaries the blood flows into the veins and back to the heart.
  • Extract from : « Applied Physiology » by Frank Overton
  • They then carry the air through the arteries to the capillaries.
  • Extract from : « Applied Physiology » by Frank Overton
  • The veins take the blood from the capillaries in all parts of the body.
  • Extract from : « Special Report on Diseases of Cattle » by U.S. Department of Agriculture
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