||Ca*pit"u*lum (?), n.;
pl. Capitula (&?;). [L., a small head.]
1. A
thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either
globular or flat. Gray.
2. (Anat.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.]
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