capillary

Etymology

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

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. (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).

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