Capitulum
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The term Capitulum can refer to several things:
- In botany, a type of flower head where the bracts are located under the basis, such as a daisy's
- Also in botany, the top of a SphagnumSphagnumSphagnum is a genus of between 151 and 350 species of mosses commonly called peat moss, due to its prevalence in peat bogs and mires. A distinction is made between sphagnum moss, the live moss growing on top of a peat bog on one hand, and sphagnum peat moss or sphagnum peat on the other, the...
moss plant with compact clusters of young branches. - In anatomy, the capitulum of the humerusCapitulum of the humerusIn human anatomy of the arm, the lateral portion of the articular surface of the humerus consists of a smooth, rounded eminence, named the capitulum of the humerus....
- In arthropod anatomy, the gnathosomaGnathosomaThe gnathosoma is the part of the body of the Acari comprising the mouth and feeding parts. These are the hypostome, the chelicerae and the pedipalps. It is also called the capitulum...
of tickTickTicks are small arachnids in the order Ixodida, along with mites, constitute the subclass Acarina. Ticks are ectoparasites , living by hematophagy on the blood of mammals, birds, and sometimes reptiles and amphibians...
s and mitesMITESMITES, or Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science, is a highly selective six-week summer program for rising high school seniors held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its purpose is to expose students from minority, or otherwise disadvantaged backgrounds, to the fields of... - In entomology, a structure similar to an elaiosome found on the eggs of some species of stick insects
- A typographic symbol which has now evolved into the pilcrowPilcrowThe pilcrow , also called the paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea , or blind P, is a typographical character commonly used to denote individual paragraphs...