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capitulum [kəˈpɪtjʊləm] n pl -la [-lə] 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants 2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) Anatomy Zoology a headlike part, esp the enlarged knoblike terminal part of a long bone, antenna, etc. [from Latin, literally: a little head, from caput head]
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| In conscionable a occupy of minutes, your capitulum constitute be sounding dry. the joint between the head of the radius and the capitulum of the humerus, is an arthrodial joint. for permission to speak: "no brother or sister is allowed to stand up to speak in the capitulum without the permission of the gastaldo. |
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