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• Capillary action — Capillary action, capillarity, capillary motion, or wicking is the ability of a substance to draw another substance into it. The standard reference is to a tube in plants but can be seen readily with porous paper. It occurs when the adhesive… …   Wikipedia

• Capillary leak syndrome — Classification and external resources DiseasesDB 34090 MeSH D019559 Capillary leak syndrom …   Wikipedia

• Capillary electrophoresis — Infobox chemical analysis name = Capillary electrophoresis caption = acronym = CE classification =Electrophoresis analytes = Biomolecules Chiral molecules manufacturers = related = gel electrophoresis Two dimensional gel electrophoresis… …   Wikipedia

• Capillary wave — A capillary wave is a wave travelling along the interface between two fluids, whose dynamics are dominated by the effects of surface tension.Capillary waves are common in nature and home, and are often referred to as ripple. The wavelength of… …   Wikipedia

• Capillary surface — In fluid mechanics and mathematics, a capillary surface is a surface that represents the interface between two different fluids. As a consequence of being a surface, a capillary surface has no thickness in slight contrast with most real fluid… …   Wikipedia

• Capillary routing — In networking and in graph theory, capillary routing, for a given network, is a multi path solution between a pair of source and destination nodes. Unlike shortest path routing or max flow routing for any network topology only one capillary… …   Wikipedia

• Capillary — Capillaries are the smallest of a body s blood vessels, measuring 5 10 μm in diameter, which connect arterioles and venules, and enable the interchange of water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and many other nutrient and waste chemical substances… …   Wikipedia

• Capillary fringe — 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 capillary fringe are filled with water due to tension saturation. This saturated portion of… …   Wikipedia

• Capillary number — In fluid dynamics, the capillary number represents the relative effect of viscous forces versus surface tension acting across an interface between a liquid and a gas, or between two immiscible liquids. It is defined as: ext{Ca}… …   Wikipedia

• capillary — /kap euh ler ee/, adj., n., pl. capillaries. adj. 1. pertaining to or occurring in or as if in a tube of fine bore. 2. resembling a strand of hair; hairlike. 3. Physics. a. pertaining to capillarity. b. of or pertaining to the apparent attraction …   Universalium

• capillary — The small blood vessels that link arterioles with venules. Lumen may be formed within a single endothelial cell, and have a diameter less than that of an erythrocyte, which must deform to pass through. Blood flow through capillaries can be… …   Dictionary of molecular biology