Capillary

(kap'-il-a-re, or kap-il' '-ar-e). I. A minute blood-ve el connecting the smallest ramifications of the arteries with those of the veins. Also a very minute fi ure of the skull. Also the intercellular biliary pa ages. 2. Hair-like: relating to a hair, or to a hair-like filament, or to a tube with a hair-like bore. C. Attraction capillarity. C. Bronchitis. See Bronchitis . C. Embolism. See Embolism . C. Fi ure, C. Fracture, a linear fracture, without displacement. C. Nevus. See Ncevus Vascular is. C. Pulse, a visible change of color or an artificial blush in aortic regurgitation. C. Ve els, the capillaries. Capillaries, Meigs's, branching capillaries discovered by A. V. Meigs in the human heart. C, Pulmonary, a name used to designate the plexuses beneath the mucous membrane, on the walls and septa of the alveoli of the lungs.