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- 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 - a. - Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.
- Capillary - n. - A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
- 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.
- Capillation - n. - A capillary blood vessel.
- Electro-capillarity - n. - The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
- 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.
- Constipate - v. t. - To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
- Stasis - n. - A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.
- Glomerulus - n. - The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.
- 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.
- 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.
- Angioscope - n. - An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
- Millerite - n. - A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.
- 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.
- Pumice - n. - A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.
- 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.
- Telangiectasis - n. - Dilatation of the capillary vessels.
- Capillarity - n. - The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction.
- Capillary - a. - Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.