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

About 1220 Richard of Newport, then sacrist, "vetus capitulum destruxit, et novum a fundamentis construxit."

From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Brakelond, Jocelin de

The membrane of the peduncle and of the capitulum is dirty yellow, with bands of purple between some of the valves.

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