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
Size and Colours.—The whole specimen, including the peduncle, was only one fifth of an inch in length; the capitulum being 3/40ths of an inch in width.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
The upper part as wide as the capitulum, the lower part sometimes much attenuated.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
