capillary artery

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   one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries

   Synonymsarteriolearteriola

   Broaderartery

Questions about capillary artery

What does capillary artery mean?

capillary artery means "one of the small thin-walled arteries that end in capillaries".

What is another word for capillary artery?

Close synonyms include arteriole, arteriola. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is capillary artery a common word?

capillary artery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.