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語源

From Latin capillāris (“pertaining to the hair”), from capillus (“the hair, properly of the head”), from caput (“head”).

発音

• (Canada) IPA: /kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi/, /ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /kəˈpɪl.ə.ɹi/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkæpəˌlɛri/, /ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/
• (Philippines) IPA: /käˈpɪʎä.ɹi/, /käˈpɪʎä.ɾi/
• ハイフネーション: cap‧il‧lar‧y
• 韻: -ɪləɹi

形容詞

capillary (comparative more capillary, superlative most capillary)

1. Resembling or pertaining to hair, especially in slenderness or fineness.
2. Of or pertaining to a narrow tube.
3. Of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.
4. Of or relating to capillaries in the body or to capillary action.

派生語

名詞

capillary (plural capillaries)

1. (anatomy) Any of the small blood vessels (from 5 to 10 micrometres/micrometers (μm) in diameter) that connect arteries to veins (They are the smallest blood vessels in the body: they convey blood between the arterioles and venules).
2. (physics, chemistry) A tube or channel having a very small internal diameter, through which liquid can rise or be drawn by capillary action.

派生語

参考

• artery
• circulatory system
• vein

Further reading

• “capillary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “capillary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.