Usually means: Smallest blood vessels, exchange nutrients.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. capillaries: Merriam-Webster
  2. capillaries: Collins English Dictionary
  3. capillaries: Vocabulary.com
  4. Capillaries, capillaries: Wordnik
  5. capillaries: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Capillaries: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  7. capillaries: Wiktionary
  8. capillaries: Dictionary.com
  9. capillaries: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Capillaries: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. capillaries: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capillaries: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. capillaries: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Capillaries: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Capillaries: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Capillaries: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  10. capillaries: Medical dictionary
  11. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)
  12. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Capillaries: Drug Medical Dictionary
  14. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See capillary as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (capillary)

adjective:  Of or pertaining to hair.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a narrow tube.
adjective:  Of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.
noun:  A narrow tube.
noun:  (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).
▸ Also see capillary


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