capillary
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Blood flow velocity decreases in the capillaries because of the increase in total cross-sectional area.
capillaries = smallest blood vessels

The narrow alleys are the capillaries leading to the streets that lead to the boulevards.
capillaries = narrow passage

She tests with a capillary tube.
capillary = narrow

But already the water is filling her capillaries, improving the flow of her blood; already she thinks more keenly.† (source)

All my tissues hurt when I saw them, when I saw Rose with them, as if my capillaries were carrying acid into the furthest reaches of my system.† (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

Langdon fought the gag reflex and relaxed his chest while his pulmonary capillaries dilated.† (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

The wallpaper was short-lived in humid weather because it ate up all the nutrients and then went grey; also it could not tell the difference between drooling lust and murderous rage, and was likely to turn your wallpaper an erotic pink when what you really needed was a murky, capillary-bursting greenish red.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylonbrushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded paws.† (source) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

His gaze keeps sliding toward the mess on her head, the shiny clump of brain tissue, the crisscrossing network of veins and capillaries.† (source)

She struggled against Loki's will so intensely that a capillary had burst across her forehead, making a dotted red line there.† (source) Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor, 2016

From a distance, it looks like a simple vial, but stepping up to look at it more closely Hiro can see at least half a dozen tiny individual compartments inside the thing, all connected to each other by capillary tubes.† (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

Capillaries in our retinas were spontaneously hemorrhaging.† (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

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Your nose ignites, flameless kerosene (and, some say, Drano) laced with ephedrine you want to cry powdered demons bite through cartilage and sinuses, take dead aim at your brain, jump inside want to scream troops of tapping feet fall into rhythm, marking time, right between your eyes get the urge to dance louder, louder, ultra gray-matter power, shock waves of energy mushroom inside your head you want to let go detonate, annihilate barriers, bring down the walls, unleashing floodwaters, freeing long-captive dreams to ride the current through arteries and capillaries, pulsing, rushing, raging torrents pounding against your heart sweeping you away.† (source) Ellen Hopkins, Crank, 2004

The mosaic thickens and throws more clots, and the clots drift through the bloodstream into the small capillaries, where they get stuck.† (source) Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, 1994

Junior's face and limbs were puffy, his capillaries leaking out what was being poured into him.† (source)

She met a sculptor with a face full of burst capillaries, English, his wife was dying, and she had a long talk with him, a completely intense conversation about the way in which their work exposed them, layer by layer, as inadequate, and they took solace one from the other, seeing how such things can be shared no matter how seemingly unique.† (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

The Old Magic that crested within him was terrifying, electric surges of energy that rocketed through every vein and capillary.† (source)

I cried until I was spent, dehydrated, my eyes and the flesh around them a site map of broken capillaries.† (source) Alice Sebold, Lucky, 1999

Broken capillaries in his face, in his eyes.† (source) J. D. Robb, Immortal in Death, 1996

The sap of his outermost capillaries plays havoc with the earth, for the way the sap exits in lines and curves is the scythe of fate.† (source)

Pressure on the capillaries from tight clothing keeps them from filling.† (source) David Baldacci, Zero Day, 2011

The city was hers, as, made up and sleeked so with the customary words and images (cosmopolitan, culture, cable cars) it had not been before: she had sale-passage tonight to its far blood's branchings, be they capillaries too small for more than peering into, or vessels mashed together in shameless municipal hickeys, out on the skin for all but tourists to see.† (source)

Cut down on sleep and you impair circulation and contract the capillaries, which causes hydration and sagging.† (source)

Instead of going for the jugular, his instinct is to go for the capillaries.
capillaries = smallest blood vessels

I was afraid she'd bust another capillary from the strain.† (source) Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor, 2016

Percy traced his hand across a web of capillaries.† (source) Rick Riordan, The House of Hades, 2013

I even know what capillaries are, I even spelled it right.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, 1988

The corpse spun around, staring at David as though every vein and capillary would burst.† (source) Henry H. Neff, The Maelstrom, 2012

Six hours after death the capillaries coagulate.† (source) David Baldacci, Zero Day, 2011

The director of CERN, Maximilian Kohler, opened his eyes to the cool rush of cromolyn and leukotriene in his body, dilating his bronchial tubes and pulmonary capillaries.† (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

I felt it fighting me, tearing open tissue and capillaries faster than I could mend them, gnawing at Blitzen with malicious hunger.† (source) Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor, 2016

How can they say that, when I've won a special mention for my essay on Temperance, about drunken men having car accidents and freezing to death in snowstorms because the alcohol dilates their capillaries?† (source) Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, 1988

Now that he was trained to see, he put together the other clues he recalled: red palms, the starburst of capillaries on cheek and neck, the womanly breasts, and the absence of armpit hair.† (source)

The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air.† (source)

The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air.† (source)

They are not that massive, but they come equipped with a capillary, a very tiny channel, that emerges here, as you can clearly see, just above the tip.† (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

For Hans Castorp understood that this living body—with its mysterious symmetry of limbs, nourished by blood through a network of nerves, veins, arteries, capillaries, all oozing lymph; with its scaffold of bones, some of them tubes filled with marrow, some like blades, some like bulbs, some torqued vertebrae, but all originating in a gelatinous base that with the help of calcium salts and lime had grown Arm enough to support the rest; with its joints made of tendons, cartilage, and slippery, well-oiled ball† (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

Capillary attraction is a natural phenomenon.† (source) James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922

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