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capillary
Any of the minute blood vessels that form networks where the arterial and venous circulation (see artery, vein) meet for exchange of oxygen, nutrients, and wastes with body tissues. Capillaries are just large enough for red blood cells to pass through in single file. Their thin walls are semipermeable, allowing small molecules to pass through in both directions. The smallest lymphatic vessels and minute bile channels in the liver are also called capillaries.


camellia
Any of the E. Asian evergreen shrubs and trees that make up the genus Camellia in the tea family (Theaceae), most notable for three ornamental flowering species and for C. sinensis (sometimes called Thea sinensis), the source of tea. The common camellia (C. japonica) is the best known, particularly for its double (many-petaled) cultivated varieties. The tea plant (C. sinensis), reaching 30 ft (9 m) in the wild but in cultivation kept to a low, mounded shrub, bears fragrant white, yellow-centered flowers.


Camilla
In Roman mythology, a legendary warrior maiden and favorite of Diana. According to Virgil, her father dedicated her to Diana and trained her as a hunter and warrior, and she led a band of warriors that included women. She fought against Aeneas and was killed as she chased a retreating soldier.


Camillus
Roman soldier and statesman. He allegedly defeated the Gauls after their sack of Rome (c.390), for which he was honored as the city's second founder. Awarded four triumphs and made dictator five times, he enjoyed his greatest victory in 396 over the Etruscans at Veii. Though a patrician, he adopted reforms beneficial to the army and the plebeians (367).


carillon
Musical instrument consisting of at least 23 cast bronze bells tuned in chromatic order. Usually located in a tower, it is played from a keyboard. Most carillons encompass three to four octaves. The carillon originated in Flanders c.1480, and the art of carillon building reached its height in the Netherlands in the 17th cent., when the tuning of the bells became highly refined.


Cavalli
Italian opera composer. In his teens he was a singer under C. Monteverdi at St. Mark's Basilica, Venice. Also an organist, he would rise to the post of maestro di cappella there in 1668. He wrote some 30 operas for Venice's public opera houses. The most popular opera composer of the decades following Monteverdi's death, he was the latter's leading successor, his chief rival for that status being Antonio Cesti (1623-1669). His most celebrated operas were Egisto (1643), Giasone (1649), Xerse (1654), and Erismena (1655).


Cavallini
Italian painter and mosaicist, active mainly in Rome. His major surviving works are mosaics of The Life of the Virgin for the Roman church of Santa Maria in Trastevere (1290s) and fragments of a fresco cycle, incl. a Last Judgment, for the church of Santa Cecilia in ...

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