English[edit]
Capillaries
Etymology[edit]
From Latin capillāris (“pertaining to the hair”), from capillus (“the hair, properly of the head”), from caput (“head”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
capillary (comparative more capillary, superlative most capillary)
- Of or pertaining to hair.
- Of or pertaining to a narrow tube.
- Of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.
Derived terms[edit]
capillary (plural capillaries)
- A narrow tube.
- (anatomy) Any of the small blood vessels (from 5 to 10 micrometres/micrometers (μm) in diameter) that connect arteries to veins (They are the smallest blood vessels in the body: they convey blood between the arterioles and venules).
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Translations[edit]
any of small blood vessels that connect arteries to veins
- Albanian: kapilar m
- Arabic: شَعِيرَة دَمَوِيَّة f (šaʿīra damawiyya)
- Armenian: մազանոթ (hy) (mazanotʿ)
- Azerbaijani: kapilyar
- Belarusian: капіля́р m (kapiljár)
- Bengali: কৈশিক (kōiśik)
- Bulgarian: капиля́ра (bg) f (kapiljára)
- Burmese: သွေးကြောမျှင် (my) (swe:krau:hmyang), အကြောမျှင် (my) (a.krau:hmyang)
- Catalan: capil·lar (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 毛細管/毛细管 (zh) (máoxìguǎn), 微血管 (zh) (wēixuèguǎn, wēixiěguǎn), 毛細血管/毛细血管 (zh) (máoxìxuèguǎn, máoxìxiěguǎn)
- Czech: vlásečnice (cs) f, kapilára (cs) f
- Danish: kapillær c
- Dutch: haarvat (nl) n, capillair (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: kapillaar
- Finnish: hiussuoni (fi)
- French: capillaire (fr) m
- Georgian: კაპილარი (ḳaṗilari)
- German: Kapillare (de) f
- Greek: τριχοειδές αγγείο n (trichoeidés angeío)
- Gujarati: કેશવાહિની (keśvāhinī)
- Hebrew: נִים (he) m (nim)
- Hindi: केशिका (hi) f (keśikā)
- Hungarian: kapilláris (hu), hajszálér (hu)
- Icelandic: háræð (is) f
- Indonesian: kapiler (id)
- Italian: capillare (it) m, vaso capillare m
- Japanese: 毛細血管 (もうさいけっかん, mōsaikekkan), 毛管 (もうかん, mōkan)
- Kazakh: капилляр (kapillär), қылтамыр (qyltamyr)
- Khmer: កេសនា (keesa’naa), កេសរ (km) (keesɑɑ)
- Korean: 모세관 (ko) (mosegwan), 모세혈관 (ko) (mosehyeolgwan)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: mûlûleya xwînê (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: капилляр (kapillyar)
- Lao: ເສັ້ນເລືອດຝອຍ (sen lư̄at fǭi)
- Latvian: kapilārs m
- Lithuanian: kapiliaras m
- Macedonian: капилар m (kapilar)
- Malay: kapilari (ms), rerambut (ms)
- Mongolian: хялгасан хоолой (xjalgasan xooloj), хялгасан судас (xjalgasan sudas)
- Navajo: atsʼoostsʼóóz
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kapillar (no) n
- Nynorsk: kapillar n
- Persian: مویرگ (fa) (muyrag)
- Polish: kapilara f
- Portuguese: capilar (pt) m
- Romanian: vas capilar
- Russian: капилля́р (ru) m (kapilljár)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: капилар m
- Roman: kapilar m
- Slovak: vlásočnica f, kapilára f
- Slovene: kapilara f
- Spanish: capilar (es) m
- Swahili: kapilari
- Swedish: kapillär (sv) c
- Tagalog: lamuymoy
- Tajik: капилляр (kapillyar)
- Thai: หลอดเลือดฝอย (lɔ̀ɔt-lʉ̂ʉat-fɔ̌i), เส้นเลือดฝอย (sêen-lʉ̂ʉat-fɔ̌i)
- Turkish: kılcal damar (tr), kapiler
- Turkmen: kapillýar
- Ukrainian: капіля́р m (kapiljár)
- Urdu: کیشکا f (keśikā)
- Uzbek: kapillyar (uz)
- Vietnamese: mao mạch (vi)
- Yiddish: אָדערל n (oderl)
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