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
Peduncle, broad, about as long as the capitulum; surface of attachment wide; calcareous scales minute, placed in transverse rows, which become less and less regular in the lower part.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Orifice not protuberant, equalling two thirds of the length of the capitulum: scuta horny.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Sext and None generally have their capitula drawn from the middle and end of the same Epistle extract.
From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.
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
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 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
The capitula are rather smaller than those figured by Gaudichaud; but in Mr. Oldfield's collection from the Murchison River we observe analogous specimens, with intermediate gradations.
From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by Stuart, John McDouall
