CAPILLARY BED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capillary bed mean? 

• CAPILLARY BED (noun)
  The noun CAPILLARY BED has 1 sense:

1. a layer of tissue densely packed with capillaries

  Familiarity information: CAPILLARY BED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPILLARY BED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A layer of tissue densely packed with capillaries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("capillary bed" is a kind of...):

animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)

 Context examples 

The blood vessel that drains blood from the capillary beds between the hypothalamus and anterior pituitary.

(Hypophyseal Portal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

Abnormal, tangled collections of dilated blood vessels that result from congenitally malformed vascular structures in which arterial afferents flow directly into venous efferents without the usual resistance of an intervening capillary bed.

(Arteriovenous Malformation, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A system of vessels between the hypothalamus and anterior pituitary in which blood, after passing through one capillary bed, is conveyed through a second set of capillaries before it returns to the systemic circulation.

(Hypothalamohypophyseal Portal System, NCI Thesaurus)

The mechanism for restricting the passage of charged ions and large molecules from the blood into the brain and central nervous system (CNS) by employing a unique capillary bed with tight junctions between the endothelial cells.

(Blood-brain barrier, NCI Thesaurus)