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Definition of Capillary bed
1. Noun. A layer of tissue densely packed with capillaries.
Definition of Capillary bed
1. Noun. (context: physiology) Any of many reticulated network of capillaries that supply blood to the organs inside the body. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Capillary bed
1. The capillaries considered collectively and their volume capacity for blood. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capillary Bed
Literary usage of Capillary bed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Acute Perinatal Asphyxia in Term Infants: Report of the Workshopedited by Linda L. Wright, Gerald B. Merenstein, Deborah Hirtz edited by Linda L. Wright, Gerald B. Merenstein, Deborah Hirtz (1997)
"Thromboemboli originating in the placental arterial tree may lodge in the placental
capillary bed, occluding the circulation and compromising placental ..."
2. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"If the capillary bed is 800 times that of the aorta, then the velocity in the
capillaries is -%^-c of that in the aorta,—say, ..."
3. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"If the capillary bed is 800 times that of the aorta, then the velocity in the
capillaries is -g^7 of that in the aorta,-—say, ..."
4. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"... failure might injure the capillaries throughout the body and cause the entire
capillary bed, even at a distance from the injury, to leak protein freely. ..."
5. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1922)
"Any increase in venous pressure reacts at once upon the capillary bed and raises
the capillary pressure more than it would be raised by an increased ..."
6. Clinical Diagnosis: A Text-book of Clinical Microscopy and Clinical by Charles Phillips Emerson (1908)
"In cases of active congestion from warmth, or of venous stasis, the capillary
bed is much widened, the capillaries filled with cells, even those which ..."
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