Injury to cervical spine may also lead to loss of cervical lordosis. A whiplash while driving motor vehicle, direct trauma on the neck can all contribute to muscle spasm and loss of curvature of cervical spine. Osteoporosis is another important factor that may cause abnormality in cervical spine curvature.
A close up of an eye showing the capillaries. noun. The definition of a capillary is a small blood vessel that is part of the network of the small arteries and small veins, or an extremely thin tube through which nothing thicker than a human hair can pass.
Capillaries (/ËkaepÉ¨lÉriz/ ËkÃ¦pÉ¨lÉriz IN; /us/ kÉËpÉªlÉriz IN) uk are the smallest of a'body s blood (vessels and lymph) vessels that make up the. microcirculationapillary beds can consist of two types of vessels: true capillaries, which branch from arterioles and provide exchange between cells and the blood, and short vessels that directly connect the arterioles and venules at opposite ends of the beds, metarterioles, only found in the mesenteric circulation.