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

In Eryngium the shortening of the pedicels changes an umbel into a capitulum.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

Shape of Body, Sack, Colours, &c.—From the position of the orifice of the capitulum, the animal's body is suspended to the scuta in a more transverse direction than is usual.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles