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

The transference from the reading to the assembly itself, and to the members constituting it, was easy, through such phrases as convenire ad capitulum.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

The number of valves in the capitulum has in this genus acquired its maximum.

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