capillary vein

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   a minute vein continuous with a capillary

   Synonymsvenulevenula

   Broadervein

   Narrowerepiscleral veinsstellate venule

Questions about capillary vein

What does capillary vein mean?

capillary vein means "a minute vein continuous with a capillary".

What is another word for capillary vein?

Close synonyms include venule, venula. 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 vein a common word?

capillary vein 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.