capillation
/ˌkæpɪˈleɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A pattern of hair-like structures or fine, thread-like projections on the surface of an organism
noun
The movement of liquid by capillary action.
noun
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), […]"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin