capsulotomy (kapsulotomi)

[L. cap sula (see capsule ) + MGr. τομία, a cutting: see anatomy.] In surg., incision of the capsule of the lens of the eye. Capsus (kap's us), n. [NL.: said to be stricted, bugs usually size and est and clavate. C. tri fasci at us is an example. captt (kapt), p. a. [Pp. of cap1, v.] Overcome in argument. capt. An abbreviation of captain. captain (kap'tān), n. and a. [ E. chieftain, q. v.), F. capitaine = Pr. capitani = Sp. capitan = Pg. cap itão = It. capitano, applied to a king or prince, to a general or commander of an army, to the governor of a province, etc. Captain of the host of the Lord. Jos. v. 14. Anoint him to be captain over my people. 1 Sam. ix. 16. Great Mars, the captain of us all. Shak., T. and C., iv. 5. Great in council and great in war, Foremost captain of his time. Tennyson, Duke of Wellington. More specifically-(a) In the army, the officer who commands a company, whether of infantry, cavalry, or artil lery. (b) In the navy, an officer next in rank above a commander, and ranking in the United States service with a colonel, and in the British with a lieutenant-colonel, and after three years' service with a colonel, in the army. Officers of this grade in the British service were formerly designated post - captains. (c) The commander or master of a merchant ve el. (d) In some of the public schools of England, a title given to the senior scholar. (e) In base - ball, rowing, etc., the head or leader of the nine, the crew, or the body of players on one side. (f) In mining, the head man or superintendent of the mining operations; the per son who directs and is responsible for the miners' work. As a title, often abbreviated capt. 2. A name commonly given, in the form long finned captain, to the fish otherwise known as the lanthorn gurnard. - Captain en piedt, a captain kept in pay, that is, not reformed. See captain reformed, below. E. Phillips, 1706. - Captain of the poll, in the University of Cambridge, England, the first in rank among those who graduate without honors, known as the polloi or poll. There are also many men every year contending for the Captaincy of the Poll , some for the honor, such as it is, others because it will help them to get Poll pupils afterwards. C. A. Bristed , English University, p. 310. Captain reform edt, a captain who upon the reducing of forces lost his company, but was continued as captain, either as second to another or without a post. See ref or mado. E. Phillips, 1706. - Captains of tops, captains of the forecastle, captains of the afterguard, and captains of the hold, ratings of petty officers in the United States navy, whose duties are to superintend the men in their different departments. - Fleet captain, in the United States navy, an officer temporarily appointed by the Navy Department to act as chief of staff to the commander-in-chief of a fleet or squadron. Also called flag captain. II.t a. [The orig. (ML.) use, but in E. later than the noun use.] 1. Of chief rank, excellence, or value; chief; principal. Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet. Shak ., Sonnets, lil. capstone (kap'stōn), n . 1. In arch ., the uppermost or finishing stone of a structure, as of a parapet, a turret, etc. Flat capstones, or flags, are often laid upon walls of bricks or small stones to protect the joints from infiltration of water, as well as to bind the structure together. serving only for the reception of ova. - Nidamental cap• sule, in conch., a case in which the embryos of certain mollusks are contained. The nidamental capsules [of the whelk, Buccinum ) are aggregated in roundish ma es which, when thrown ashore and drifted by the wind, resemble corallines. Each capsule contains five or six young. S. P. Woodward , Mollusca, 2d ed., p. 219. 2. Of commanding character; fitted to lead. Why then women are more valiant That stay at home, if bearing carry it, And the a more captain than the lion. Shak., T. of A., iii. 5. captain