A capillary is a small blood vessel, from 5 to 10 micrometres in diameter, and is part of the microcirculation system. Capillaries are microvessels and...
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Capillary action (sometimes called capillarity, capillary motion, capillary rise, capillary effect, or wicking) is the process of a liquid flowing in...
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In the renal system, peritubular capillaries are tiny blood vessels, supplied by the efferent arteriole, that travel alongside nephrons allowing reabsorption...
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fluid statics, capillary pressure ( p c {\displaystyle {p_{c}}} ) is the pressure between two immiscible fluids in a thin tube (see capillary action), resulting...
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Lymph capillaries or lymphatic capillaries are tiny, thin-walled microvessels located in the spaces between cells (except in the central nervous system...
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Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a family of electrokinetic separation methods performed in submillimeter diameter capillaries and in micro- and nanofluidic...
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A capillary wave is a wave traveling along the phase boundary of a fluid, whose dynamics and phase velocity are dominated by the effects of surface tension...
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In fluid dynamics, the capillary number (Ca) is a dimensionless quantity representing the relative effect of viscous drag forces versus surface tension...
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Capillary refill time (CRT) is defined as the time taken for color to return to an external capillary bed after pressure is applied to cause blanching...
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Glomerulus (kidney) (redirect from Glomerular capillaries)
The glomerulus (pl.: glomeruli) is a network of small blood vessels (capillaries) known as a tuft, located at the beginning of a nephron in the kidney...
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A Luggin capillary (also Luggin probe, Luggin tip, or Luggin-Haber capillary) is a small tube that is used in electrochemistry. The capillary defines a...
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capillary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A capillary is a small blood vessel or any small diameter tube. Capillary may also refer to: Capillary length...
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Capillary Technologies is an international SaaS technology company. Capillary's primary product is its cloud-based customer loyalty/customer engagement...
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In materials science and biology, capillary condensation is the "process by which multilayer adsorption from the vapor [phase] into a porous medium proceeds...
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Pulmonary wedge pressure (redirect from Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure)
(PWP) (also called pulmonary arterial wedge pressure (PAWP), pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP), pulmonary artery occlusion pressure (PAOP), or...
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The capillary length or capillary constant is a length scaling factor that relates gravity and surface tension. It is a fundamental physical property...
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A capillary bridge is a minimized surface of liquid or membrane created between two rigid bodies of arbitrary shape. Capillary bridges also may form between...
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Capillary leak syndrome, or vascular leak syndrome, is characterized by the escape of blood plasma through capillary walls, from the blood circulatory...
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Microcirculation (section Capillary exchange)
metarterioles, capillaries, and venules. Arterioles carry oxygenated blood to the capillaries, and blood flows out of the capillaries through venules...
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Starling equation (redirect from Capillary hydrostatic pressure)
plasma to interstitial (or tissue) fluid occurs in microvascular capillaries and post-capillary venules. In most tissues the micro vessels are invested with...
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The capillary fringe is the subsurface layer in which groundwater seeps up from a water table by capillary action to fill pores. Pores at the base of the...
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A capillary tube mat is a flat composite structure of thin tubes (capillaries) with a distributor tube and a collector tube. The main applications include...
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Infantile hemangioma (redirect from Capillary hemangioma)
benign vascular tumor or anomaly that affects babies. Other names include capillary hemangioma, "strawberry hemangioma",: 593 strawberry birthmark and strawberry...
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Jurin's law (redirect from Capillary rise)
Jurin's law, or capillary rise, is the simplest analysis of capillary action—the induced motion of liquids in small channels—and states that the maximum...
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Angiogenesis (redirect from Capillary sprouts)
are known as stalk cells. The proliferation of these cells allows the capillary sprout to grow in length simultaneously. As sprouts extend toward the...
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Precapillary sphincter (redirect from Pre-capillary sphincter)
flow to the capillary bed. The sphincter can open and close the entrance to the capillary, by which contraction causes blood flow in a capillary to change...
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In chemical analysis, capillary electrochromatography (CEC) is a chromatographic technique in which the mobile phase is driven through the chromatographic...
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is collected via capillary action in small channels located between its scales. Captured water is transported passively via capillary action in semi-tubular...
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endothelial cells of the capillary wall, astrocyte end-feet ensheathing the capillary, and pericytes embedded in the capillary basement membrane. This...
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fluid such as blood and lymph) that causes a pull on fluid back into the capillary. Participating colloids displace water molecules, thus creating a relative...
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