capillary

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Branchlets are 1/2 to 3 inches, capillary, angular and further dividing Illustration: Fig.

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  1. adjective Relating to or resembling a hair; fine and slender.
  2. adjective Having a very small internal diameter: a capillary tube.
  3. adjective Anatomy Of or relating to the capillaries.
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  • Normally, blood from the heart moves from arteries to veins through a fine network of small blood vessels called a capillary bed. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Comparison of different capillary isoelectric focusing methods -- use of "narrow pH cuts" of carrier ampholytes as original tools to improve resolution. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Two capillary isoelectric focusing (CIEF) systems have first been optimized: one uses a bare silica capillary and 30\% (v / v) of glycerol in the separation medium while the other uses a coated capillary and an aqueous background electrolyte. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • HPC coating gave best results for electroosmotic flow (EOF) limitation on a wide pH range: as compared to a bare silica capillary, it allowed to decrease EOF by 96\% at pH 7.2 after acidic and basic treatments, whereas PVA coating lead only to a 76\% decrease. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Use of quasi-isoelectric buffers as anolyte and catholyte to improve capillary isoelectric focusing performances. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. From Latin capillāris, from capillus, hair.

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  1. from Latin capillaris, pertaining to the hair (Late Latin herba capillaris, maidenhair fern), from capillus, the hair, properly of the head (for *capitlus?), from caput (capit-), head: see caput.
 

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