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Dead bodies do get a grayish blue/purple hue because blood pools in the capillaries and the body starts to decompose. It's not smurf blue, but it's not a pleasant shade.
Ann Hood

Meaning of "capillaries" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CAPILLARIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAPILLARIES

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Capillaries is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CAPILLARIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

capillaries

Capillary

Capillaries /ˈkæpɨlɛriz/ are the smallest of a body's blood vessels and are parts of its microcirculation. Their endothelial linings are only one cell layer thick. These microvessels, measuring around 5 to 10 micrometre in diameter, connect arterioles and venules, and they help to enable the exchange of water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and many other nutrients and waste chemical substances between blood and the tissues surrounding them. During embryological development, new capillaries are formed through vasculogenesis, the process of blood vessel formation that occurs through a de novo production of endothelial cells followed by their forming into vascular tubes. The term angiogenesis denotes the formation of new capillaries from pre-existing blood vessels and already present endothelium which divides.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAPILLARIES

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capillary action
capillary tube
capillitium
capita
capital
capital account
capital allowance
capital allowances
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capital city
capital cost
capital employed
capital equipment
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WORDS THAT END LIKE CAPILLARIES

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binaries
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Synonyms and antonyms of capillaries in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «capillaries» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAPILLARIES

Find out the translation of capillaries to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of capillaries from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «capillaries» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

毛细血管
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

capilares
570 millions of speakers

English

capillaries
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

केशिकाओं
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشعيرات الدموية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

капилляры
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

capilares
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কৈশিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

capillaires
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kapilari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kapillaren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

毛細血管
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

모세 혈관
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Capillaries
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mao mạch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நுண்குழாய்களில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

केशिका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kılcal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

capillari
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kapilar
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

капіляри
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

capilare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τριχοειδή αγγεία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kapillêre
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kapillärer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kapillærer
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about capillaries

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4 QUOTES WITH «CAPILLARIES»

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Ann Hood
Dead bodies do get a grayish blue/purple hue because blood pools in the capillaries and the body starts to decompose. It's not smurf blue, but it's not a pleasant shade.
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August Krogh
I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and in mammals through a binocular microscope, using strong reflected light as a source of illumination. Resting muscles observed in this way are usually quite pale, and the microscope reveals only a few capillaries at fairly regular intervals.
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August Krogh
Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every muscle a very effective pump, capable of maintaining a low pressure in the muscle capillaries.
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August Krogh
When a suitable quantity of India ink is introduced into the circulation of a living anaesthetized animal, it is evenly mixed with the blood, and if the animal is suddenly killed by stopping the circulation a few minutes later, and preparations are made from the muscles and other organs, these show the capillaries which were open at the time.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAPILLARIES»

Discover the use of capillaries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to capillaries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Massage Connection: Anatomy and Physiology
LONG CAPILLARIES It is calculated that if all of the body's capillaries are placed end to end, they would circle the globe, with a total length of about 40,230 km ( 25,000 miles). arteries. When end arteries are obstructed, the tissue loses its blood ...
Kalyani Premkumar, 2004
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Handbook of Cardiac Anatomy, Physiology, and Devices
The smallest of the arteries eventually branch into arterioles. They, in turn, branch into an extremely large number of the smallest diameter vessels—the capillaries ( with an estimated 10 billion in the average human body). Next, blood exits the ...
Paul A. Iaizzo, 2009
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The Dermal Lymphatic Capillaries
From the preface: "The importance of the lymphatic system has been known for a long time.
Judit Daroczy, 2011
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Human Microscopic Anatomy: An Atlas for Students of Medicine ...
Plate. 24. Capillaries. Continuous. capillaries. Capillaries are terminal ramifications of blood vessels in the form of endothelial tubes with highly simplified tunicae: thus, the tunica intima is composed only of endothelium and a basal lamina; the ...
Radivoj V. Krstic, 1991
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The anatomy and physiology of capillaries
TABLE OF CONTENTS Pkeface Lecture I. Introductory. The Distribution and Number of Capillaries in Selected Organs . The role of capillaries in the circulatory system, 1. The problem of the supply of oxygen to muscles, 2. The blood vessels of ...
August Krogh, 1922
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Textbook of Work Physiology: Physiological Bases of Exercise
With the aid of the electron microscope, Brodal, Ingjer, and Hermansen (1977) counted the number of capillaries per square millimeter in cross sections of needle biopsies taken from the vastus lateralis muscle from 12 untrained and 11  ...
Per-Olof Åstrand, 2003
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Morris's human anatomy
The lymphatic system consists of a set of closed vessels which start as closed capillaries in the various organs and tissues, continue as closed vessels, pass through lymph-nodes in which the vessels Weak up into capillaries and spaces ...
Sir Henry Morris, 1921
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Introduction to the Pharmaceutical Sciences
Nita K. Pandit. Blood Osmotic Blood Osmotic pressure pressure pressure pressure Figure 11.2. The exchange of fluids between circulating blood in capillaries and interstitial fluid. At the arterial end, there is a net movement of fluid out of ...
Nita K. Pandit, 2007
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Textbook of Human Physiology for Dental Students
These are short, low-resistance connections between the arterioles and veins, bypassing the capillaries. These are abundantly innervated by vasomotor sympathetic fibres. These vessels are especially found in the skin of fingers, toes and ...
Khurana, 2007
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Essential Medical Physiology
The existence of these diaphragms accounts for the fact that fenestrated capillaries appear to be as equally impermeable to plasma proteins as are many continuous-type capillaries, but they are far more permeable to water. Hence, it is not ...
Leonard R. Johnson, John H. Byrne, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAPILLARIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term capillaries is used in the context of the following news items.
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Age is just a number - you could be getting older three times faster …
... cholesterol, heart health, lung function, the condition of tiny capillaries at the back of the eye, and the length of telomeres – protective caps on ... «BT.com, Jul 15»
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How to stay young: The 38-year-olds whose biological ages range …
The study at Duke University in North Carolina, US, also checked capillaries at the back of the eye, which indicate the state of blood vessels in ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Column: Healthy Routes
Adequate collagen in the scalp, which is also skin, ensures that there are adequate capillaries to provide nourishment to the hair follicle ... «MorinvilleNews.com, Jul 15»
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Electric Fields Spark Skin Rejuvenation
... secretion of new collagen and capillaries in skin, generating new skin tissue growth. Their work recently was published in Scientific Reports. «SkinInc.com, Jul 15»
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Debunking The Greatest Gender Fitness Myths; Cardio Kills Men's …
When we get our blood pumping via cardio we also increase the number of small blood vessels known as capillaries that network thorough our ... «Medical Daily, Jul 15»
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Aerobic fitness is first thing to go
... capillaries in your muscles. When you detrain, the heart gradually loses its ability to handle extra blood flow, and those new capillaries wither. «NWAOnline, Jul 15»
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University of Southampton researchers to make fiber preforms via …
... 'stack and draw' process which involves stacking several smaller glass capillaries or canes together by hand to form the preform. Preforms ... «Laser Focus world, Jul 15»
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Roche's ESBRIET (pirfenidone) Deemed Safe in Systemic Sclerosis …
... tests of lung function and measures the ability of lungs to transfer gas from inhaled air to the red blood cells in pulmonary capillaries). «Pulmonary Hypertension News, Jul 15»
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Uganda's Pre-2016 Poll Status Report
... link major towns and the regions, but we shall not see much by way of the capillaries that branch off from the main roads into the inner towns. «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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TAU Researchers Say Their Technology Beats Botox
“Our new application may jumpstart the secretion of new collagen and capillaries in problematic skin areas,” Golberg explained. “Considering ... «Arutz Sheva, Jul 15»

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