CAPUT

(Lat.), n. n. Ka(ka3)'pu3t(pu4t). Gen., cap'it is. Gr., Kt a\ri. Fr., tete. Ger.. Kopf. It., capo. Sp., cabeza. 1. The head. 2. The peridium of certain Fungi. [B, 19, 180.] Also any rounded, head-like extremity of an organ or structure; in the pi., capita, the tops of plants (e. g., capita papaveris), also, of Albinus the vertebral origins of the diapnragm. [L. 31.] Bicipitis c. breve. The short (middle) head of the biceps flexor cubiti. [L, 31.] Bicipitis c. longum. The long head of the biceps flexor cubiti. [L, 31.] C. angulare. See A.vaEHbrauenzache. C. argutum. A head shaped like a sugar-loaf. [L, 119.] C. aurieulare musculi stylo glo i [Gruber]. An acce ory head of the stylo glo us muscle arising from the auditory canal. [L. 31.] C. breve. See TRANS VERSUS ped is. C. caecum col i. See CAECUM. C. caudati [Wilder]. See C. carports striati.C. claviculare. The clavicular origin of the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle. [L, 31.] C. col i. See CAECUM. C. concutiens. See under CONCUTIENS. C. cord is. The base of the heart. [Galen (A, 325).] C. cornu posterior is. The broad anterior extremity of the gray columns of the spinal cord. [I, 6; K.] C. corp or is striati. The anterior portion or base of the corpus stria turn. [I, 17; K.] Capita corporum caver no so rum penis. The crura of the corpora cavernosa. [L, 31.] C. dors i cornu. See C. cornu posterior is. C. epididymidis. See GLOBUS major. C. externum. The outer head of the triceps extensor cubiti. [L, 31.] C. facere. To gather. come to a head (said of inflammatory swellings). [L, 119.J C. femoris. The head of the femur. [L, 115.] C. florum. See CAPITULUM. C. galeatum. Ger., Gliickshaube. The condition in which, during parturition, the child's head emerges still covered with the membranes (a caul). [A, 326.] C. gall i, C. gallinaceum, C. gall in agin is. Fr., crete urethrale. Ger., Hahnenkopf. Schnepfenkopf, Samenhiigel. Syn.: verumontanum. An oblong eminence on the floor of the urethra of the male, in front of the prostate, flattened from side to side and tapering anteriorly; formed chiefly by a ma of muscular fibres from the posterior wall of the bladder and having at its summit the orifices of the ejaculatory ducts. [A, 301, 323; L, 115.] C. gelati no sum [Spitzka]. The collection of gray matter seen on the posterior and inner edge of the posterior gray column of the spinal cord. [" Jour, of Nerv. and Ment. Dis.," Apr., 1880, p. 208 (K).] Cf. SUBS TANTI A gelati nos a. C. inclavatum, C. incuneatum. The condition in which the foetal head is impacted in the pelvis. [A, 85.] C. infra-orbitale. See LKVATOR labii superior is proprius.C. intermim. The inner head of the triceps extensor cubiti. [L, 31.] C. lien is. The upper end of the spleen. [L, 31.] C. longum. The long head of the triceps extensor cubiti. [L, 31.] See also ADDUCTOR hallucis. C. magnum. See C. externum and ADDUCTOR hallucis. C. magnum tricipitis brachii. In the solipeds, the scapulo-olecranius and scapulo-olecranius magnus muscles. [L.] C. majus. See GLOBUS major. C. medullas [Bartholini]. Syn.: medulla gtobosa. The cerebrum as distinguished from the medulla oblong at a. [I, 3.] Capita medullae oblong a tae. The optic thalami. [L, 7.] C. medulla oblong a tae. See C. medullce.C. Medusae. Ger., Meduxenhaupt. A dilated state of the small cutaneous veins around the umbilicus in a new-born infant, due to stasis of blood in the portal vein; so called from the resemblance of the veins to the fabled head of Medusa. [A. 326; L, 57.] C. minus. See GLOBUS minor. C. monachi. The Taraxacum dens leon is. [L, 97, 119.] C. mortuum. Fr., tete morte. Ger., Todtenkopf, Ruck stand. Of the old chemists, a ma of impure iron oxide left after the expulsion of sulphuric acid from iron sulphate by heat. [A, 322; L, 81.] Cf. C. mortuum VITRIOL I. C. moventium secund us. See BIVENTER cervicis.C. obliquum. See ADDUCTOR hallucis. C. obstipnm. See TORTICOLLIS. C. of the posterior horn. The pointed extremity of the posterior cornu of the lateral ventricle. [I, 1; K.]-C. o is. The head of a bone. [Gorra?us(A,325).] C. pancreatis. The head of the pancreas. [L, 31.] C. parvum. See C. internum and TRANS VERSUS ped is. C. penis. See GLANS O, no; O, not; O, whole; Th, thin; Th, the; U, like oo in too; 105 [s. 75]