capillary
/kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi/ · adj
Meaning
- Resembling or pertaining to hair, especially in slenderness or fineness.
- Of or pertaining to a narrow tube.
- Of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.
- Of or relating to capillaries in the body or to capillary action.
- 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).
- A tube or channel having a very small internal diameter, through which liquid can rise or be drawn by capillary action.
Etymology / origin
From Latin capillāris (“pertaining to the hair”), from capillus (“the hair, properly of the head”), from caput (“head”).
- capillāris(la)→
- *kap-(ine-pro)→
- capillary (English)
- Relations: root, der
Related words
Descendant words
- капиляр(Bulgarian) (cog)
- kapillaari(Finnish) (cog)
- kapillaarinen(Finnish) (cog)
- kapilari(Malay) (bor)
- cabello(Spanish) (cog)
- kapilari(Swahili) (bor)
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