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Capillary :: Capillary (a.) Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants..

Capillary :: Capillary (n.) A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute..

Angioscope :: Angioscope (n.) An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

Electro-capillary :: Electro-capillary (a.) Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity..

Congestion :: Congestion (n.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper/mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs..

Electro-capillarity :: Electro-capillarity (n.) The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.

Capillaceous :: Capillaceous (a.) Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.

Capillariness :: Capillariness (n.) The quality of being capillary.

Capillation :: Capillation (n.) A capillary blood vessel.

Telangiectasis :: Telangiectasis (n.) Dilatation of the capillary vessels.

Millerite :: Millerite (n.) A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites..

Constipate :: Constipate (v. t.) To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels..

Glomerulus :: Glomerulus (n.) The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.

Capillary :: Capillary (n.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels..

Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards..

Capillary :: Capillary (a.) Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action..

System :: System (n.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity..

Wick :: Wick (n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned..

Capillarity :: Capillarity (n.) The quality or condition of being capillary.

Power :: Power (n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power..

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