capillary

English

Capillaries

Etymology

From Latin capillāris (“pertaining to the hair”), from capillus (“the hair, properly of the head”), from caput (“head”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi/, /ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/

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• Rhymes: -ɪləɹi

Adjective

capillary (comparative more capillary, superlative most capillary)

1. Of or pertaining to hair.
2. Of or pertaining to a narrow tube.
3. Of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.

Derived terms

• capillary bed
• capillary refill
• magnetocapillary
• optocapillary
• polycapillary

 

Noun

capillary (plural capillaries)

1. A narrow tube.
2. (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).

Derived terms

• capillarity
• capillary action
• capillary wave
• peritubular capillary

 

Translations

narrow tube

• Bulgarian: капиляра (bg) f (kapiljara)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: hiusputki (fi)
• Hungarian: hajszálcső, kapilláris (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kapillar (no) n

  Nynorsk: kapillar n

• Russian: капилляр (ru) m (kapilljar)
• Spanish: capilaria f

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)

See also

• artery
• circulatory system
• vein

Further reading

• capillary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• capillary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911