capitulum
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Jerome, in fact, seems to have been the first to unambiguously use the term capitulum to refer to a numbered, titled segment of a text.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014
The articulating surfaces of the distal humerus consist of the trochlea medially and the capitulum laterally.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The capitulum articulates with the radius bone of the forearm.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Size.—The largest specimen which I have seen, had a capitulum rather above one inch long and three fourths of an inch wide: growth very rapid.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
In young specimens, peduncle nearly colourless; and in those under a quarter of an inch long in the capitulum, the top of the peduncle has not acquired its orange tint.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Sext and None generally have their capitula drawn from the middle and end of the same Epistle extract.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
Jerome, notwithstanding, in his Preface names these additions in the order, Susanna, The Three, Bel and the Dragon; yet in the immediately following "capitula Danihelis," it stands as in the text after chap. xii.
From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by William Heaford Daubney
In the capitula of Compositae we sometimes find the florets converted into green leaves.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
The trees had evidently not flowered last year; many of the buds were of some size, and such contained flower buds, each capitula being in addition enveloped in three bracteæ densely beset with brown hair.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith
Bacon, whose previous writings had been mostly scattered tracts, capitula quaedam, took fresh courage from this command of the pope.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
