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CAPUT
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Irregular inflected form: capita
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
Example:
he stuck his head out the window
Synonyms:
caput; head
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("caput" is a kind of...):
external body part (any body part visible externally)
Meronyms (parts of "caput"):
muzzle (forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose)
ear (the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium)
arteria basilaris; basilar artery (an unpaired artery; supplies the pons and cerebellum and the back part of the cerebrum and the inner ear)
brain; encephalon (that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord)
skull (the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates)
face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)
temple (the flat area on either side of the forehead)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caput"):
human head (the head of a human being)
Holonyms ("caput" is a part of...):
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
body; organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A headlike protuberance on an organ or structure
Example:
the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("caput" is a kind of...):
bulge; bump; excrescence; extrusion; gibbosity; gibbousness; hump; jut; prominence; protrusion; protuberance; swelling (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings)
