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单词 capillary
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capillary

(kəpɪləri, US kæpəleri)
Word forms: plural capillaries
countable noun
Capillaries are tiny blood vessels in your body.

capillary in British English

(kəˈpɪlərɪ)
adjective
1. 
resembling a hair; slender
2. 
(of tubes) having a fine bore
3.  anatomy
of or relating to any of the delicate thin-walled blood vessels that form an interconnecting network between the arterioles and the venules
4.  physics
of or relating to capillarity
nounWord forms: plural -laries
5.  anatomy
any of the capillary blood vessels
6. 
a fine hole or narrow passage in any substance
Word origin
C17: from Latin capillāris, from capillus hair

capillary in American English

(ˈkæpəˌlɛri; British kəˈpɪlərɪ)
adjective
1. 
of or like a hair, esp. in being very slender
2. 
having a very small bore
3. 
in or of capillaries
nounWord forms: plural ˈcapilˌlaries
4. 
a tube with a very small bore
: also capillary tube
5. 
any of the tiny blood vessels normally connecting the smallest arteries (arterioles) with the smallest veins (venules)
Word origin
L capillaris < capillus, hair

Examples of 'capillary' in a sentence
capillary

He watched the heavy blue fabric shredded open with the ragged capillary signature of summer lightning.
Metz, Don KING OF THE MOUNTAIN (1990)

In other languages
capillary

British English: capillary NOUN
Capillaries are tiny blood vessels in your body.
  • American English: capillary
  • Brazilian Portuguese: vaso capilar
  • Chinese: 微血管
  • European Spanish: capilar
  • French: capillaire
  • German: Kapillare
  • Italian: capillare
  • Japanese: 毛細血管
  • Korean: 모세관의
  • European Portuguese: vaso capilar
  • Latin American Spanish: capilar
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