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Definition of Capillary artery
1. Noun. One of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries.
Generic synonyms: Arteria, Arterial Blood Vessel, Artery
Derivative terms: Arteriolar, Arteriolar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capillary Artery
Literary usage of Capillary artery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The placenta, the organic nervous system, the blood, the oxygen, and the by John O'Reilly (1861)
"From what has been just stated, the inference must be deduced, that there is a
secreting organ or gland at the termination of the capillary artery and ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1837)
"... that into these cells the extreme arteries poured their contents; that an
extreme capillary artery had two communications, one with the particle which ..."
3. The London Medical Repository and Review (1816)
"Sometimes a sudden change in the direction oí' a capillary artery enables us to
judge that it has passed into a vein ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1901)
"Each gill-filament receives a capillary artery which extends to the epithelium
of the tip, where it turns into a capillary vein. ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1904)
"... it approaches the greatest event of its career, and this takes place the moment
it leaves the last capillary artery and arrives at the first vein. ..."
6. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1842)
"The capillary artery and vein may contain either red or colourless blood, according
to the size of the vessels and the nature of the organs or tissues in ..."
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