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 capitulum, therefore, is formed of at most 34 valves; but in the largest specimen seen by me, the capitulum being 2.3 of an inch in width, there were only 32 valves.

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

Size and Colour.—Full average-sized specimens have a capitulum half an inch in width and height; the entire length, with the contracted peduncle, being about an inch and a half.

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