capillaries

1. The tiny blood vessels throughout the body that connect arteries and veins . Capillaries form an intricate network around body tissues in order to distribute oxygen and nutrients to the cells and remove waste substances. ( See circulatory system .)

Example Sentences

Three muscle-fibres lying beside each other, with the small blood-vessels (capillaries) around and between them.

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Some of the amœboid corpuscles from the blood make their way between the cells forming the walls of the capillaries.

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This network of capillaries may be followed into larger veins in which the blood moves regularly.

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In the walls of these pouches are numerous capillaries, the ends of arteries which pass from the heart into the lung.

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And then my capillaries relaxed, for I dimly saw him footing it away through the darkness.

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