1. A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
2. (Anat.)
Defn: 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
Cap`il*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. capillatie the hair.]
Defn: A capillary blood vessel. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
CAPILLATURE
Ca*pil"la*ture, n. Etym: [L. capillatura.]
Defn: A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair. Clarke.
CAPILLIFORM
Ca*pil"li*form, a. Etym: [L. capillus hair + -form.]
Defn: In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.
CAPILLOSE
Cap"il*lose`, a. Etym: [L. capillosus.]