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capillary

ka puh le ree

  • n  a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
  • n  any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules
  • a  of or relating to hair
  • s  long and slender with a very small internal diameter
    a capillary tube

  • Massiveand massively expensiveHummer suvs squeeze through the city's capillary-sized streets, ferrying the wealthy to new clubs and bars like Roppongi's Crystal Lounge, which .
  • A borderless outrage at rape, wife battering, child abuse by men and other enormities produces a kind of capillary effect: a seepage of disgust that merges the proposition "All men .
  • Then it detects the pulsating presence of a nearby capillary and darts between the cells that compose the blood- vessel wall.
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