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Definition of Capillaries
1. capillary [n] - See also: capillary
Medical Definition of Capillaries
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Capillaries
Literary usage of Capillaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lancet (1839)
"VARICOSE capillaries? To ¡he Editor of THE LANCET. SIR:—The attention of the
profession having been drawn to the so-called varicose »täte of the capillaries ..."
2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"These capillaries are running in the connective tissue outside but close to the
... The elements of the tissues lie outside the capillaries and form ..."
3. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The capillaries.—The smaller arterial branches (excepting those of the ...
The diameter of the capillaries varies in the different tissues of the body, ..."
4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"The lymph-capillaries may in one sense be regarded as the beginnings of the ...
But lymph exists outside these capillaries. In treating of connective tissue ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"In each of the desiccators, the capillaries were placed on two parallel 6-mm glass
... In all, several hundred capillaries were placed in the desiccators. ..."
6. A Text-book of histology by Alexander A.. Böhm, M. von Davidoff, Gotthelf Carl Huber (1900)
"The walls of the lymph capillaries consist of very delicate, flattened endothelial
cells, which are, however, somewhat larger and more irregular in outline ..."
7. Principles of human physiology: With Their Chief Applications to Psychology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1860)
"Similar nuclei may be brought into view in the capillaries of adult animals, by
treating them with acetic acid ; and they are particularly well seen in the ..."
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