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Ruptured blood vessel

Capillary with red blood cells

Myelinated and unmyelinated nerve fibres and blood vessel

Pigmented epithelium - TEM

Mouse nose, transverse section

TEM of capillary

Glomerular capillaries and podocyte

TEM of cardiac capillary

Small blood vessel - endothelial cells & RBC

Die Entstehungsweise der körpereigenen Reize für die normalen Lebensveran̈derungen der Gewebe und die gutartigen und "bösartigen" endogenen Erkrankungen des menschlichen Körpers : die Umschaltung des kapillaren Kreislaufs im paravertebralen Raum Darstellung eines Teilabschnittes des Gesamtkreislaufs des "lebenden" Menschen / Eduard Alther.

Dissertatio de vasorum capillarium corporis humani suctu, / quam propugnabit in Augustissimo Monspeliensi Apollinus Fano,  ab horâ octavâ ad meridiem, die mensis Martii anni 1747. /  Josephus Brun, ... ; praeside Francisc. de Sauvages.

Observations on living mammalian lymphatic capillaries : their relation to the blood vessels / Eliot R. Clark and Eleanor Linton Clark.

Des nerfs vaso-moteurs et de la circulation capillaire : thèse pour le doctorat en médecine présentée et soutenue le mercredi 3 août 1864 / par De Barrel de Pontevès (Joseph-Emile).

Dissertations, On cynanche trachealis or croup, and On the functions of the extreme capillary vessels in health and disease : to which were awarded the Boylston premiums for the years 1820 and 1823 / by William Sweetser.

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Dissertatio de vasorum capillarium corporis humani suctu, / quam propugnabit in Augustissimo Monspeliensi Apollinus Fano, ab horâ octavâ ad meridiem, die mensis Martii anni 1747. / Josephus Brun, ... ; praeside Francisc. de Sauvages.

Observations on living mammalian lymphatic capillaries : their relation to the blood vessels / Eliot R. Clark and Eleanor Linton Clark.

Des nerfs vaso-moteurs et de la circulation capillaire : thèse pour le doctorat en médecine présentée et soutenue le mercredi 3 août 1864 / par De Barrel de Pontevès (Joseph-Emile).

Dissertations, On cynanche trachealis or croup, and On the functions of the extreme capillary vessels in health and disease : to which were awarded the Boylston premiums for the years 1820 and 1823 / by William Sweetser.

Capillaries

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Dissertatio de vasorum capillarium corporis humani suctu, / quam propugnabit in Augustissimo Monspeliensi Apollinus Fano, ab horâ octavâ ad meridiem, die mensis Martii anni 1747. / Josephus Brun, ... ; praeside Francisc. de Sauvages.

Observations on living mammalian lymphatic capillaries : their relation to the blood vessels / Eliot R. Clark and Eleanor Linton Clark.

Des nerfs vaso-moteurs et de la circulation capillaire : thèse pour le doctorat en médecine présentée et soutenue le mercredi 3 août 1864 / par De Barrel de Pontevès (Joseph-Emile).

Dissertations, On cynanche trachealis or croup, and On the functions of the extreme capillary vessels in health and disease : to which were awarded the Boylston premiums for the years 1820 and 1823 / by William Sweetser.

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