"Capillarity" is a word in ENGLISH
The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid,
where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is
elevated or depressed; capillary attraction.
The quality or condition of being capillary.
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An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
Read the complete definitionOne of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and …
Read the complete definitionHaving long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.
Read the complete definitionThe quality of being capillary.
Read the complete definitionA tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.
Read the complete definitionResembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels …
Read the complete definitionA minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the …
Read the complete definitionA capillary blood vessel.
Read the complete definitionTo cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part.
Read the complete definitionOverfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local …
Read the complete definitionTo stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
Read the complete definitionIn medical Jurisprudence. Blackness. It is an extravasation of blood by rupture of capillary vessels, and hence lt follows contusion; …
Read the complete definitionThe occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
Read the complete definitionPert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity.
Read the complete definitionIn medical jurisprudence. The mechanical obstruction of an artery or capillary by some body traveling in the blood current, as, …
Read the complete definitionThe bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.
Read the complete definitionA sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called …
Read the complete definitionA spot or mark on the skin of children when born; a birthmark; -- usually applied to vascular tumors, i. …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver …
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