Usually means: Small blood vessels before capillaries.
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  1. precapillary: Wiktionary
  2. precapillary: Dictionary.com

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  1. precapillary: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. precapillary: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (precapillary)

adjective:  (anatomy, of an arteriole or venule) preceding (on the arterial side of) a capillary

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