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Having a distinct globular tip.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
Examples
- 1913 Henry Gray: Anatomy Descriptive and Applied The capitate bone is the largest of the carpal bones, and occupies the centre of the wrist. It presents, above, a rounded portion or head, which is received into the concavity formed by the navicular and lunate; a constricted portion or neck; and below this, the body. The superior surface is round, smooth, and articulates with the lunate.
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Topped with a dense, head-like cluster, such as the inflorescences of composites or the antennae of some insects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences, zoology
Examples
- 1884 A. de Bary Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns. Oxford University Press Capitate hairs occur on most leaf-forming plants, especially Dicotyledons and Ferns, as a rule in company with non-glandular hairs. It is true they are absent from many large groups... To this category belong in the first place the great majority of the universally distributed glandular hairs ... Meanwhile we need only remark here, that the glandular hairs are characterised by no special form, but rather by definite properties of the cell walls; therefore the terms capitate and glandular hair are not equivalent. In the case of many capitate hairs, it is as yet uncertain whether they possess the characteristic properties of glandular hairs...
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The capitate bone of the wrist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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To pay health-care providers using a capitation system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Qualifier: health care
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: capitate bone, os capitatum
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Broader terms: carpal bone, carpal, wrist bone
From Latin capitātus (“having a head”), from caput (“head”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). The noun comes from the clipping of capitate bone.
Back-formation from capitation.
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Romanian:
capitat
— having a distinct globular tip
