Sample sentences for CAPILLARY

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Definition

a slender tube — especially the smallest blood vessels

a capillary tube

Blood flow velocity decreases in the capillaries because of the increase in total cross-sectional area.
Instead of going for the jugular, his instinct is to go for the capillaries.
The narrow alleys are the capillaries leading to the streets that lead to the boulevards.
I cried until I was spent, dehydrated, my eyes and the flesh around them a site map of broken capillaries.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
Percy traced his hand across a web of capillaries.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
Cut down on sleep and you impair circulation and contract the capillaries, which causes hydration and sagging.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
They are not that massive, but they come equipped with a capillary, a very tiny channel, that emerges here, as you can clearly see, just above the tip.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Junior's face and limbs were puffy, his capillaries leaking out what was being poured into him.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
But already the water is filling her capillaries, improving the flow of her blood; already she thinks more keenly.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
The sap of his outermost capillaries plays havoc with the earth, for the way the sap exits in lines and curves is the scythe of fate.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Broken capillaries in his face, in his eyes.
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
Capillaries in our retinas were spontaneously hemorrhaging.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
The Old Magic that crested within him was terrifying, electric surges of energy that rocketed through every vein and capillary.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
I even know what capillaries are, I even spelled it right.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
His gaze keeps sliding toward the mess on her head, the shiny clump of brain tissue, the crisscrossing network of veins and capillaries.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
Langdon fought the gag reflex and relaxed his chest while his pulmonary capillaries dilated.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
The mosaic thickens and throws more clots, and the clots drift through the bloodstream into the small capillaries, where they get stuck.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
The corpse spun around, staring at David as though every vein and capillary would burst.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
Pressure on the capillaries from tight clothing keeps them from filling.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day

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