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  2. Collins English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The unabridged Collins English Dictionary was published on the web on 31 December 2011 on CollinsDictionary.com, along with the unabridged dictionaries of French, German, Spanish and Italian. [5] The site also includes example sentences showing word usage from the Collins Bank of English Corpus, word frequencies and trends from the Google ...

  3. Capillary - Wikipedia

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    A capillary is a small blood vessel, from 5 to 10 micrometres in diameter, and is part of the microcirculation system. Capillaries are microvessels and the smallest blood vessels in the body. Capillaries are microvessels and the smallest blood vessels in the body.

  4. Comparison of English dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...

  5. American and British English pronunciation differences

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    Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into . differences in accent (i.e. phoneme inventory and realisation).See differences between General American and Received Pronunciation for the standard accents in the United States and Britain; for information about other accents see regional accents of English.

  6. Arteriole - Wikipedia

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    An arteriole is a small-diameter blood vessel in the microcirculation that extends and branches out from an artery and leads to capillaries. [1]Arterioles have muscular walls (usually only one to two layers of smooth muscle cells) and are the primary site of vascular resistance.

  7. Help:IPA/English - Wikipedia

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    If you feel it is necessary to add a pronunciation respelling using another convention, then please use the conventions of Wikipedia's pronunciation respelling key. To compare the following IPA symbols with non-IPA American dictionary conventions that may be more familiar, see Pronunciation respelling for English , which lists the pronunciation ...

  8. Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary [1] (CCAD) from HarperCollins, first published in 1987, [2] is a dictionary that distinguished itself by providing definitions in full sentences, rather than excerpted phrases. Example sentences are given for almost every meaning of every word, drawn from a large corpus of actual usage.

  9. Glomerulus (kidney) - Wikipedia

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    Renal corpuscle showing glomerulus and glomerular capillaries Figure 2: (a) Diagram of the juxtaglomerular apparatus: it has specialized cells working as a unit which monitor the sodiujuxtaglomerular apparatus: it has three types of specm content of the fluid in the distal convoluted tubule (not labelled - it is the tubule on the left) and adjust the glomerular filtration rate and the rate of ...