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Descriptor English: Capillary Action
Descriptor Spanish: Acción Capilar
Descriptor acción capilar
Entry term(s) capilaridad
Scope note: Fenómeno por el que la superficie de un líquido que está en contacto con un sólido se encuentra elevada o deprimida, por causa de la atracción relativa de las moléculas del líquido entre ellas y las del sólido. ( McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Ação Capilar
Descriptor French: Action capillaire
Entry term(s): Action, Capillary
Capillarities
Capillarity
Wicking
Tree number(s): G02.860.327
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002197
Scope note: A phenomenon in which the surface of a liquid where it contacts a solid is elevated or depressed, because of the relative attraction of the molecules of the liquid for each other and for those of the solid. (from McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
RE radiation effects
Public MeSH Note: 2012; see CAPILLARITY 1966-2011
History Note: 2012 (1966)
Related: Capillaries MeSH
DeCS ID: 2229
Unique ID: D002197
NLM Classification: QC 183
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Date Established: 2012/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/01/15
Capillary Action - Preferred
Concept UI M0554087
Scope note A phenomenon in which the surface of a liquid where it contacts a solid is elevated or depressed, because of the relative attraction of the molecules of the liquid for each other and for those of the solid. (from McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)
Preferred term Capillary Action
Entry term(s) Action, Capillary
Wicking
Capillarity - Broader
Concept UI M0003290
Scope note The tendendy of a liquid where it contacts a solid to be elevated or depressed, because of the relative attraction of the molecules of the liquid for each other and for those of the solid. (from McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)
Preferred term Capillarity
Entry term(s) Capillarities



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