capillary

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi/, /ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæpəˌlɛri/, /ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/

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• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /käˈpɪʎä.ɹi/, /käˈpɪʎä.ɾi/
• Hyphenation: cap‧il‧lar‧y
• Rhymes: -ɪləɹi

Adjective

capillary (comparative more capillary, superlative most capillary)

1. Resembling or pertaining to hair, especially in slenderness or fineness.
2. Of or pertaining to a narrow tube.
3. Of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.
4. Of or relating to capillaries in the body or to capillary action.

Derived terms

• alveolocapillary
• arteriocapillary
• capillaric
• capillarily
• capillaritis
• capillarization
• capillary bed
• capillary refill
• cerebrocapillary
• choriocapillary
• elastocapillary
• electrocapillary
• endocapillary
• exocapillary
• extracapillary
• intercapillary
• intracapillary
• juxtacapillary
• magnetocapillary
• megacapillary
• microcapillary
• midcapillary
• multicapillary
• nanocapillary
• neocapillary
• neurocapillary
• noncapillary
• optocapillary
• pericapillary
• polycapillary
• postcapillary
• precapillary
• pseudocapillary
• thermocapillary
• transcapillary
• vasocapillary
• venocapillary

Noun

capillary (plural capillaries)

1. (anatomy) 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).
2. (physics, chemistry) A tube or channel having a very small internal diameter, through which liquid can rise or be drawn by capillary action.

Derived terms

• capillarity
• capillary action
• capillary wave
• peritubular capillary

Translations

narrow tube

Bulgarian: капиля́р (bg) m (kapiljár) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: hiusputki (fi) Hungarian: hajszálcső (hu), kapilláris (hu) Maori: ngongo rauangi Norwegian: Bokmål: kapillar (no) n Nynorsk: kapillar n Russian: капилля́р (ru) m (kapilljár) Spanish: capilaria f

any of small blood vessels that connect arteries to veins

Albanian: kapilar m Arabic: شُعَيْرَة دَمَوِيَّة f (suʕayra damawiyya) Armenian: մազանոթ (hy) (mazanotʻ) Azerbaijani: kapilyar Belarusian: капіля́р m (kapiljár), валасні́к m (valasník) Bengali: কৈশিক (bn) (kōiśik) Bulgarian: капиля́р (bg) m (kapiljár) Burmese: သွေးကြောမျှင် (my) (swe:krau:hmyang), အကြောမျှင် (my) (a.krau:hmyang) Catalan: capil·lar (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 微絲血管 / 微丝血管 (mei4 si1 hyut3 gun2) Mandarin: 毛細管 / 毛细管 (zh) (máoxìguǎn), 微血管 (zh) (wēixuèguǎn, wēixiěguǎn), 毛細血管 / 毛细血管 (zh) (máoxìxuèguǎn, máoxìxiěguǎn) Czech: vlásečnice (cs) f, kapilára (cs) f Danish: kapillær c Dutch: haarvat (nl) n, capillair (nl) n Esperanto: kapilaro Estonian: kapillaar Finnish: hiussuoni (fi) French: capillaire (fr) m Georgian: კაპილარი (ḳaṗilari) German: Kapillare (de) f Greek: τριχοειδές αγγείο n (trichoeidés angeío) Gujarati: કેશવાહિની (keśvāhinī) Hebrew: נִים (he) m (nim) Hindi: केशिका (hi) f (keśikā) Hungarian: kapilláris (hu), hajszálér (hu) Icelandic: háræð (is) f Indonesian: kapiler (id) Italian: capillare (it) m, vaso capillare m Japanese: 毛細血管 (ja) (もうさいけっかん, mōsaikekkan), 毛管 (ja) (もうかん, mōkan), 毛細管 (ja) (もうさいかん, mōsaikan) Kazakh: капилляр (kapillär), қылтамыр (qyltamyr) Khmer: កេសនា (keesaʼnaa), កេសរ (km) (keesɑɑ) Korean: 모세관(毛細管) (ko) (mosegwan), 모세혈관(毛細血管) (ko) (mosehyeolgwan) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: mûlûleya xwînê (ku) f Kyrgyz: капилляр (kapillyar) Lao: ເສັ້ນເລືອດຝອຍ (sen lư̄at fǭi) Latvian: kapilārs (lv) m Lithuanian: kapiliaras m Macedonian: капила́р m (kapilár) Malay: kapilari (ms), rerambut (ms) Mongolian: Cyrillic: хялгасан хоолой (xjalgasan xooloj), хялгасан судас (xjalgasan sudas) Navajo: atsʼoostsʼóóz Norwegian: Bokmål: kapillar (no) n Nynorsk: kapillar n Persian: مویرَگ (fa) (muyrag) Polish: kapilara (pl) f Portuguese: capilar (pt) m Romanian: vas capilar m or n, capilar (ro) m or n Russian: капилля́р (ru) m (kapilljár) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: капилар m Roman: kapilar m Slovak: vlásočnica f, kapilára f Slovene: kapilara f Spanish: capilar (es) m Swahili: kapilari Swedish: kapillär (sv) c Tagalog: lamuymoy, kapilaryo Tajik: капилляр (kapillyar) Thai: หลอดเลือดฝอย (lɔ̀ɔt-lʉ̂ʉat-fɔ̌i), เส้นเลือดฝอย (sêen-lʉ̂ʉat-fɔ̌i) Turkish: kılcal damar (tr), kapiler Turkmen: kapillýar Ukrainian: капіля́р m (kapiljár) Urdu: کیشکا f (keśikā) Uzbek: kapillyar (uz) Vietnamese: mao mạch (vi) Yiddish: אָדערל n (oderl)

See also

• artery
• circulatory system
• vein

Further reading

• “capillary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “capillary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.