TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe human capillaries
Y1  - 1934/01/27
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1934.02750040037014
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 295
EP  - 296
VL  - 102
IS  - 4
N2  - The physician of today has become accustomed to specialization of the most specific types. Each year more specialized novelties enter the practice of medicine. Presently they become established parts of diagnostic or therapeutic routine. The x-ray laboratory and the allergy clinic represent pertinent illustrations. Among innovations in this respect is the capillary laboratory. Until lately the descriptions of the capillaries and their functions could be expressed in a few words. It sufficed to refer to them as a network of minute tubules connecting the terminations of the smallest arteries to the commencement of the smallest veins. In structure they were thought of as a single layer of elongated flattened and nucleated epithelium cells. The latter were much more difficult to observe in life than the blood cells traversing the capillaries, often in single file. The normal thickness of the walls of these vessels appears to be somewhat less than 1
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1934.02750040037014
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1934.02750040037014
ER  -