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 capitulum articulates with the radius bone of the forearm.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The articulating surfaces of the distal humerus consist of the trochlea medially and the capitulum laterally.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
I have seen one specimen in the British Museum, from the Coast of China, 2.3 inches across the capitulum, and 1.5 in length, with the valves surprisingly thick.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Description.—The capitulum is not much compressed, a horizontal section giving an oval figure; it is placed obliquely on the peduncle, the scuta descending lower than the terga and carina.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Before the 'Opus Majus,' Bacon, according to his own account, had written nothing except a few slight treatises, "capitula quaedam."
From Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I by Anonymous
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
The sterile bracts of the daisy occasionally produce capitula, and give rise to the hen-and-chickens daisy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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
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
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