Meaning

(obsolete) A capillary (blood vessel)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A capillary (blood vessel).
2. (by extension, obsolete) A branching structure or ramification.
3. (obsolete, medicine) A hairline fracture of the skull.
4. (Paleontology) A pattern of hair-like structures or fine, thread-like projections on the surface of an organism
5. Hair or pelt.
6. The movement of liquid by capillary action.
7. (by extension, figurative) A sympathetic tendency to move towards something
8. The problem of extra liquid adhering to the surface of a needle or pipette through capillary action, causing errors in delivering an accurate amount.

Example Sentences

Nor is the humour contained in smaller veins or obscurer capillations, but in a vesicle or little bladder

they are rather noxious to the secretive organs of the urine which, during the latter part of the time, operate still more disadvantageously on the whole organism, because they cut up, violently, the tender capillation, so needful to the economy of the blood, partly by the quick process of putrefaction, in which they throw the body, before dying away;

This Water is between three and four yards deep in all places, with a fine bottom of soft Marle and Sand; from every part of which in a calm day you may perceive the capillations of almost innumerable fountains, which are the principal feeders of the Tarn.

The globular torso—the bubble-like suggestion of a head—the three fishy eyes—the foot-long proboscis—the bulging gills—the mostrous capillation of asp-like suckers— the six sinuous limbs with their black paws and crab-like claws —God !

CAPILLATION, or CAPILLARY fracture, according to some writers, is a fracture in the skull, so small that it can scarce be perceived; but yet it often proves mortal.

Then there are papers on canthus, on canule (a canula), on caout-choue (valgairement gomme e/lastique), on capeline (a sort of bandage), on capillaire (in its botanical, physical, and anatomical meanings), on capillament (the hair of the head and of other parts of the body), on capillation (a slight fracture of the cranium), on capistration (with is cross reference to phimosis), on capistre (a sort of trismus), […]

The fact that the majority of the Burma Terebratulids have been burnt has caused the suggestion to be made that the capillation shows on this account more plainly than it would otherwise do. For in certain cases of decortication of the test a sort of capillation may be observed which does not show under ordinary conditions.

Pedicle-valve ornament of concentrid lamellae and growth lines, faint capillation; spines in row at low angle to hinge, directed laterally, bases subparallel. Brachial-valve ornament similar but no spines; concentric ornament more prominent; traces of fine capillation.

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