capillary bed

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   a layer of tissue densely packed with capillaries

   Broaderanimal tissue

Questions about capillary bed

What does capillary bed mean?

capillary bed means "a layer of tissue densely packed with capillaries".

Is capillary bed a common word?

capillary bed 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.