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
The dark bands on the capitulum and peduncle become in spirits purple; but are sometimes discharged; the general grey tint disappears.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Entire length two inches, of which the capitulum is fourteen French lines.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
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 John McDouall Stuart
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
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
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
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
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