capillary

Meaning

Adj

1. Of or pertaining to hair.
2. Of or pertaining to a narrow tube.
3. Of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.

Noun

1. A narrow tube.
2. Any of the small blood vessels (from 5 to 10 micrometres/micrometers (μm) in diameter) that connect arteries to veins (They are the smallest blood vessels in the body: they convey blood between the arterioles and venules).

Concepts

capillary

hairlike

capillary vessel

capillary tube

artery

vein

capillary tubing

blood vessel

duct

venule

hairline

phloem

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi/

Etymology

From Latin capillāris (“pertaining to the hair”), from capillus (“the hair, properly of the head”), from caput (“head”).