Assertion: circulatory system's capillary | /r/HasProperty | small
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Capillaries are very small and have thin walls to allow easier passage of compounds including nutrients, glucose, carbon dioxide, and waste products.
text: Capillaries are tiny, averaging about 8 microns (1/3000 inch) in diameter, or about a tenth of the diameter of a human hair.
text: Capillaries are tiny blood vessels that extend from the arterioles to allow the blood vessels to reach all the body cells and tissues.
text: When they reach the tissues they divide into capillaries that are very small and very thin walled (one cell thick).
text: Capillaries are tiny thin-walled blood vessels that merge into smaller veins called venules which then merge into larger veins.
text: Capillaries are so small, that in many instances only a few red blood cells can pass through the center of the capillary at a time.