caput
/K AH0 P UH1 T/noun
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(anatomy) The head.
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The top or superior part of a thing.
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(anatomy) A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
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(UK) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
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(medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of caput succedaneum. [A neonatal condition involving a serosanguinous, subcutaneous, extraperiosteal fluid collection with poorly defined margins caused by the pressure of the presenting part of the scalp against the dilating cervix during delivery.]
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