CAPILLARY VESSEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capillary vessel mean? 

• CAPILLARY VESSEL (noun)
  The noun CAPILLARY VESSEL has 1 sense:

1. any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules

  Familiarity information: CAPILLARY VESSEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPILLARY VESSEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

capillary; capillary vessel

Hypernyms ("capillary vessel" is a kind of...):

blood vessel (a vessel in which blood circulates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capillary vessel"):

glomerulus (a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; it filters the blood during urine formation)

tomentum; tomentum cerebri (a network of tiny blood vessels between the cerebral surface of the pia mater and the cerebral cortex)