caput
IPA: kʌpˈʊt
noun
- (anatomy) The head.
- (anatomy) A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
- The top or superior part of a thing.
- (UK) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
- (medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of caput succedaneum. [A neonatal condition involving a serosanguinous, subcutaneous, extraperiosteal fluid collection with poorly defined margins caused by the pressure of the presenting part of the scalp against the dilating cervix during delivery.]
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Examples of "caput" in Sentences
- This particular portacaval anastomosis is known as caput medusae.
- First, the caput is not deeply and tightly held by the acetabulum.
- Caput Mundi is a Latin phrase taken to mean capital of the world .
- A complete and fast recovery will normally occur with caput succedaneum.
- You might include the Orator and Senior master non regent and the Caput.
- In 1978, it was a caput school and before long, it became an aided school.
- It then became caput of what was to become the Talgarth or Blaenllyfni barony.