small tube; pipette; tubule
Technical term used in scientific and medical contexts for any slender tube, including laboratory pipettes and anatomical tubules.
In the experiment, we used a pipette to transfer a small amount of liquid.
The tubules of the kidney play an important role in blood filtration.
capillary tube · capillary (blood vessel)
renal tubule; uriniferous tubule
seminiferous tubule
Compound of 細 (さい, 'thin, fine') and 管 (かん, 'tube, pipe').