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Caput| Noun | 1. | caput - a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure; "the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula"excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, bulge, protrusion, protuberance, bump, prominence - something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form | | | 2. | caput - the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains; "he stuck his head out the window"muzzle - forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose ear - the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium brain, encephalon - that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord skull - the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates face, human face - the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; "he washed his face"; "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news" temple - the flat area on either side of the forehead; "the veins in his temple throbbed" | |
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