Capillary

Definitions: Capillary

Capillary

Adjective

1. Relating to or involving capillarity; "capillary action"; "capillary attraction".

2. (anatomy) "a capillary network".

3. Long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube".

Noun

1. A tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action.

2. Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules.

Date "capillary" was first used: 1667. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Capillary

Domain	Definitions
Health	Any one of the minute vessels that connect the arterioles and venules, forming a network in nearly all parts of the body. Their walls act as semipermeable membranes for the interchange of various substances, including fluids, between the blood and tissue fluid; called also vas capillare. (references)
Mining	A. The action by which the surface of a liquid is elevated at the point at which it is in contact with a solid (such as in a lamp wick). See also:capillarity b. Resembling a hair; fine, minute, slender; esp., having a very small or thin bore usually permitting capillary c. Said of a mineral that forms hairlike or threadlike crystals, e.g., millerite. Syn:filiform; moss; wire; wiry. d. Said of tubes or interstices with such small openings that they canretain fluids by capillarity. e.g., millerite. Syn:filiform; moss; wire; wiry. d. Said of tubes or interstices with such small openings that they canretain fluids by capillarity. (references)
Science	Hair-like. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Capillary

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
CA	English	Capillary tube agglutination	Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Capillary

Synonyms: hairlike (adj), capillary tube (n), capillary tubing (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Capillary

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Filament	Adjective: filamentous, filamentiferous, filaceous, filiform; fibrous, fibrillous; thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy; capillary, capilliform; funicular, wire-drawn;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Capillary

English words defined with "capillary": ADH, alcohol thermometer, alcohol-in-glass thermometer, Angioscope, antidiuretic hormone ♦ bioflavinoid ♦ Capillaceous, Capillariness, capillary action, capillary artery, capillary bed, Capillary pyrites, capillary tube, capillary tubing, capillary vein, Capillation, citrin, Cotton grass ♦ diapedesis ♦ Electro-capillarity ♦ Feather ore ♦ haemorrhagic fever, hairlike, hemorrhagic fever ♦ mercury thermometer, mercury-in-glass thermometer ♦ Pitressin ♦ stop ♦ taper, Telangiectasis, terminate, turgor ♦ vasopressin, venula, venule, vitamin P ♦ wick. (references)

Specialty definitions using "capillary": apparent cohesion, Arteriovenous Anastomosis ♦ BELLOWS ASSEMBLER, BELLOWS FILLER, Bleeding Time, Blood-Air Barrier, Blood-Aqueous Barrier, Bradykinin ♦ capillary attraction, capillary fitting, Capillary Fragility, Capillary Fringe, capillary movement, Capillary Permeability, Capillary Potential, capillary pyrite, Capillary Resistance, capillary water, Capillary Zone, CHARGING MANIFOLD, Chromatography, Micellar Electrokinetic Capillary ♦ direct-reading capillary chart ♦ Edge-Defined Film-Fed Growth, Electrophoresis, Capillary ♦ fringe water ♦ Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia, Giant Lymph Node Hyperplasia, Glomerular Filtration Rate, Glomerular Mesangium, Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative, Glomerulonephritis, Membranous, Granuloma, Pyogenic ♦ Hemostatics ♦ Intermediate Zone ♦ lento-capillary point, Leukocyte Migration-Inhibitory Factors, Lipoprotein Lipase ♦ Median Eminence ♦ Palo-Travis analyser, Passive Cutaneous Anaphylaxis, pendular stage, pF of soil water, Phreatophyte, Poiseuille's law, Pulmonary Alveoli, Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity, Pulmonary Gas Exchange ♦ readily available moisture, Respiratory Dead Space ♦ sweat joint ♦ THERMOMETER PRODUCTION WORKER ♦ Vadose Zone, vasogenic, vasogenic shock, Venules, Viper Venoms ♦ water of capillarity, Weber's number ♦ zone of capillarity. (references)

Etymologies containing "capillary": Spicknel. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Capillary

Domain	Title
Books	A Practical Guide to the Care, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting of Capillary Gas Chromatographic Systems, 3rd Revised Edition (reference) Capillary Electrophoresis Guidebook: Principles, Operation, and Applications (reference) Ce and Cec Reviews 2002: Advamces Om Tje Practice and Application of Capillary Electrophoresis and Capillary Electochromatography (reference) Gas Chromatographic Retention Indices of Toxicologically Relevant Substances on Packed or Capillary Columns With Dimethylsilicone Stationary Phases (reference) High-Performance Capillary Electrophoresis: Theory, Techniques, and Applications (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Capillary Lockdown (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Capillary

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The metastatic colony is the end result of a complicated multistep process. The tumor cells from a primary tumor invade local tissue and gain access to the venous circulation (intravasation). Circulating tumor cells, singly or in clumps, are transported to target organs where they lodge in the capillary bed. Thus arrested, these tumor cells penetrate the endothelial cell lining and the underlining basement membrane to exit the circulation (extravasation). They then grow as a metastatic colony, a development that requires new blood vessels (neovascularization). To complete this multistep process, the tumor cells must overcome the host's defenses.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Capillary fragility is one of the manifestations of a plague infection, evident here on the leg of an infected patient.Credit: CDC.
	Both structures are derived from endoplasmic reticulum. Capillary endothelial cell in lymph node biopsy from patient with lymphadenopathy due to infection with HIV-1.Credit: CDC.		A rickettsia is visible near luminal surface of hypertrophied capillary endothelial cellt (lower right). Transmission electron micrograph.Credit: CDC.
	At least one rickettsia is visible within a sloughed endothelial cell. There is marked capillary endothelial cell hypertrophy. Transmission electron micrograph.Credit: CDC.		Histopathology of cytomegalovirus infection of brain capillary endothelial cell.Credit: CDC.
	Histopathology of malaria pigment in brain capillary.Credit: CDC.		Class in capillary physics at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Capillary

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Capillary telangiectases. (references)
		The arteries and veins that make up AVMs, however, lack this intervening capillary network. (references)
		The pathologic lesions are primarily vascular with variable degrees of generalized capillary dilation and edema. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Capillary

"Capillary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 76.24% of the time. "Capillary" is used about 101 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	76.24%	77	37,929
Noun (singular)	20.79%	21	76,261
Noun (proper)	2.97%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	101	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Capillary

Expressions using "capillary": capillary action ♦ capillary artery ♦ capillary attraction ♦ capillary bed ♦ capillary fitting ♦ Capillary Fragility ♦ Capillary Leak Syndrome ♦ capillary matrix ♦ Capillary Permeability ♦ capillary pyrite ♦ Capillary pyrites ♦ Capillary repulsion ♦ Capillary Resistance ♦ capillary tube ♦ capillary tubing ♦ capillary vein ♦ capillary vessels. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "capillary": anti-capillary, Electro-capillary, lento-capillary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Capillary

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
capillary	79	broken capillary treatment	4
broken capillary	76	dilated capillary	4
capillary electrophoresis	56	broken capillary cause	4
capillary action	20	capillary central hepatic lobules part vein	4
capillary tube	17	capillary force	3
capillary hemangioma	15	actin capillary lymphatic	3
capillary column	13	capillary thermostat	3
capillary mat	10	capillary fabric	3
broken capillary on the face	7	capillary disease	3
capillary tubing	6	capillary glass	3
capillary refill	6	capillary electrophoresis image	3
capillary fragility	6	capillary rheometer	3
capillary electrophoresis zone	6	capillary facial	3
capillary pressure	6	capillary film	3
broken facial capillary	5	capillary scalp	3
capillary leak syndrome	5	blood capillary test	3
capillary pressure pulmonary wedge	5	capillary centrifuge tube	2
capillary matting	5	capillary hemangiomas	2
capillary electrophoresis principle	4	capillary structure	2
alveolar capillary dysplasia	4	burst capillary	2
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Modern Translations: Capillary

Language		Translations for "capillary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kapilar (capillaceous). (various references)

Arabic		‏متعلق بالخاصة الشعرية, ‏وعاء شعري, ‏أنبوب شعري, ‏رفيع جدا, ‏شعري (furry, hairy, poetical). (various references)

Bulgarian		капилярен, капиляр. (various references)

Chinese		血丝. (various references)

Czech		kapilární. (various references)

Danish		capillaris, kapillaer, kapillær (hair), kapillær. (various references)

Dutch		capillair (capillary tube, hair). (various references)

Farsi		مویرگ , موءی , عروق شعریه , ظریف (Delicate, Sheer, Slender), باریک (Linear, Narrow, Slat, Slender, Slice, Strait, Tender, Tenuous, Thin). (various references)

Finnish		hiussuoni. (various references)

French		capillaire (capillaries, capillary tube). (various references)

German		kapillare, kapillargefäß (capillary vessel), kapillar (capillaries, hair). (various references)

Greek		τριχοειδές αγγείο (hair), τριχοειδές, τριχοειδήσ (capillarity, hair like), τριχοειδής,τριχοειδές αγγείον, τριχοειδής (hair, hairlike, hairy, piliform, pilose, pilous). (various references)

Hebrew		צ� ור � ימי, � ימי (thready), � ימ�" (hair, melody, string, tang, thread, trace, tune). (various references)

Hungarian		hajszálvékony, hajszálcsöves (capillaceous), hajszálér (capillary vessel). (various references)

Indonesian		seperti rambut. (various references)

Italian		capillare (detailed, diffused, hair). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		毛管 , 毛細血管 (capillary vessel). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		もうさいけっか�" (capillary vessel), もうか�" (cul-de-sac). (various references)

Korean		모세관. (various references)

Pig Latin		apillarycay

Portuguese		capilar. (various references)

Romanian		capilar. (various references)

Russian		капиллярный (capillaceous), капилляр. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kapilarni (capillaceous), kapilar. (various references)

Spanish		capilar (hair). (various references)

Swedish		kapillär (capillaceous, capillary tube), hårrörskärl, hårfin (capillaceous, hair's breadth, subtle), hår- (capillaceous). (various references)

Turkish		kılla ilgili, kılcal damar, kılcal, kıl gibi (bristly, hairy). (various references)

Ukranian		тонкостінний, тонкий (acute, gauzy, nice, sleazy, slim, soft, spidery, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin), капілярний (filiform), капіляр (duct). (various references)

Vietnamese		mao dẫn, ống mao dẫn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Capillary

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	capillaris. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Capillary

Misspellings
	"Capillary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acapella, Camilleri, capilar, capilla, capillar, capilliary, Cappiello, carpelary, carpellary, Kapilarii, Kappeller. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Capillary"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "capillary" (pronounced ka"pule'rē)
5	-u l e' r ē	ancillary, Constabulary, corollary, epistolary, formulary, vocabulary.
3	-e' r ē	actuary, adversary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, contemporary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, depositary, Dewberry, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, obituary, ordinary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, primary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary.
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Anagrams: Capillary

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-l-p-r-y"
	-1 letter: apically, racially.
	-2 letters: airplay, lyrical.
	-3 letters: apiary, apical, carpal, lacily, laical, pallia, parlay, picara, pillar, piracy, piraya, plical, racial, racily.
	-4 letters: acari, alary, aliya, allay, calla, carpi, clary, craal, laari, lilac, lyric, pally, pical, pilar, playa, plica, pricy, prill, pyric, rally, riyal.
	-5 letters: acyl, airy, alar, ally, aria, aril, aryl, call, carl, carp, clap, clay.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-l-p-r-y"
	+2 letters: calligraphy, capillarity, graphically, parochially, piratically, practically, prosaically.
	+3 letters: operatically, paranoically, particularly, seraphically, sporadically.
	+4 letters: anaphorically, aperiodically, digraphically, graphemically, impractically, irreplaceably, panegyrically, panoramically, parabolically, paradoxically, paralytically, parasitically, participially, patriotically, pharisaically, postcranially, pragmatically, prismatically, puritanically, rhapsodically, sympatrically, ultraphysical, xylographical.
	+5 letters: allopatrically, aphoristically, apotropaically, biographically, epigraphically, geographically, hyperbarically, karyotypically, metaphorically, parabiotically, paradisaically, paradisiacally, parametrically, paratactically, polyacrylamide.
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