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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Capillary \Cap"il*la*ry\, n.; pl {Capillaries}. 1. A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute. 2. (Anat.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Capillary \Cap"il*la*ry\ (k[a^]p"[i^]l*l[asl]*r[y^] or k[.a]*p[i^]l"l[.a]*r[y^]; 277), a. [L. capillaris fr capillus hair. Cf {Capillaire}.] 1. Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces having very small bore; as the capillary vessels of animals and plants. 2. Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as capillary action {Capillary attraction}, {Capillary repulsion}, the apparent attraction or repulsion between a solid and liquid caused by capillarity. See {Capillarity}, and {Attraction}. {Capillarity tubes}. See the {Note} under {Capillarity}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: capillary adj 1: relating to or involving capillarity; "capillary action"; "capillary attraction" 2: (anatomy) "a capillary network" 3: long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube" [syn: {hairlike}] n 1: a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action [syn: {capillary tube}, {capillary tubing}] 2: any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules
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