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Definition of Capillary vein
1. Noun. A minute vein continuous with a capillary.
Specialized synonyms: Episcleral Veins, Venae Episclerales, Stellate Venule
Generic synonyms: Vein, Vena, Venous Blood Vessel
Medical Definition of Capillary vein
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Capillary Vein
Literary usage of Capillary vein
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The placenta, the organic nervous system, the blood, the oxygen, and the by John O'Reilly (1861)
"... that there is a secreting organ or gland at the termination of the capillary
artery and commencement of the capillary vein, inasmuch as that the blood ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1850)
"... the finest Biliary Tubules have much larger areas than the capillary vein
lubes ; so also the meshes in the network of the biliary tubules are mostly ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1901)
"Each gill-filament receives a capillary artery which extends to the epithelium
of the tip, where it turns into a capillary vein. The epithelium of these ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1844)
"... every capillary artery ends in я capillary vein, anil nutrition and secretion
are accomplished by an elective attraction between the substance of the ..."
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