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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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