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单词 capillary
释义 cap·il·lary
I. \ˈkapəˌlerē, -ri, Brit usually kəˈpiləri\ adjective
Etymology: French or Latin; French capillaire, from Latin capillaris, from capillus hair + -aris -ary
1. : belonging or relating to hair
 < capillary growth >
2. : resembling a hair : fine, minute, slender; especially : having a very small or thin bore usually permitting capillarity
 < a capillary tube >
3. : involving or held by capillary action
 < capillary water >
: resulting from surface tension in the soil
 < capillary capacity is a measure of the ability of a soil to hold water in the surface layers against the action of gravity >
4.
 a. : showing or suggesting an arrangement of capillaries
  < a capillary network >
 b. : relating to capillarity or to an apparatus employing it
  < capillary action >
II. noun
(-es)
: a minute thin-walled vessel of the body; especially : any of the smallest constituent vessels of the blood-vascular system connecting arterioles with venules so as to form networks practically throughout the body, averaging 1/2 millimeter in length and at their widest being not many times the diameter of a blood corpuscle, and being walled by a single layer of endothelial cells that permits ready exchange of nutrients and metabolic wastes between the tissues and the circulating blood — see rouget cell
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