capillary layer

  • 1capillary layer of choroid — lamina choroidocapillaris …

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  • 2Capillary lamina of choroid — Latin lamina choroidocapillaris The capillary lamina of choroid or choriocapillaris is a layer of capillaries that is immediately adjacent to Bruch s membrane in the choroid. External links http://www.trinity.edu/r …

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  • 3Capillary 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… …

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  • 4Capillary electrophoresis — Infobox chemical analysis name = Capillary electrophoresis caption = acronym = CE classification =Electrophoresis analytes = Biomolecules Chiral molecules manufacturers = related = gel electrophoresis Two dimensional gel electrophoresis… …

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  • 5Capillary 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… …

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  • 6Capillary — 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… …

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  • 7Capillary 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… …

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  • 8capillary — /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 …

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  • 9layer — A sheet of one substance lying on another and distinguished from it by a difference in texture or color or by not being continuous with it. SEE ALSO: stratum, lamina. SYN: panniculus. ameloblastic l. the internal l. of the enamel organ. SYN: enam …

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  • 10capillary — noun /kəˈpɪ.lə.ɹi,ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi,kəˈpɪ.lə.ɹi,ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/ Any of the small blood vessels that connect arteries to veins. Their walls are composed of a single layer of cells which allows molecules such as oxygen, water and lipids to pass through them… …

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