Capitate

Word CAPITATE
Character 8
Hyphenation cap i tate
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Capitate"

What do we mean by capitate?

Enlarged and globular at the tip, as a bone of the wrist having a rounded knoblike end or the stigma of certain flowers. adjective

Having flowers arranged in a dense headlike cluster. adjective

To put a head upon; specifically, in mathematics, to prefix to (a symbol) a number not less than the highest digit contained in it: thus 12 may be capitated into 212.

In botany, head-shaped, or collected in a head, as a dense terminal cluster of sessile or nearly sessile flowers; having a rounded head: as, a capitate stigma.

In ornithology, having an enlarged extremity: as, the capitate feather of a peacock's tail.

In entomology, suddenly enlarged at the end so as to form a ball or oval mass: applied to the antennæ of insects when this form is produced by several expanded terminal joints, as in most of the Curculionidæ.

Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers. adjective

Having the flowers gathered into a head. adjective

Having a distinct globular tip. adjective

Forming a dense, head-like cluster, such as the inflorescences of composites. adjective

The capitate bone of the wrist. noun

To pay health-care providers using a capitation system. verb

Being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip adjective

The wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus noun

(anatomy) The capitate bone of the wrist.

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The word "capitate" in example sentences

As Mesorhopella but golden, antenna short, capitate, club equal funicle, funicles transverse. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

It had been an extended ordeal of vomit and hallucination, a long night spent surfing alternating waves of horror and ecstasy-and in the shaky morning when End of Time had finally showed himself, pyramid head and all, Smithe (less overwhelmed by the sight of that capitate curiosity than he might normally have been) found himself somehow disinclined, even unable, to interrogate the medicine man along the lines that he had so carefully prepared. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2000)

Small bundles of up to 5 pedunculate capitate inflorescences arise in axillary positions on the young parts of shoots. ❋ Unknown (1990)

Halteres: the poisers or balancers: capitate movable filaments in ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

"In _P. farinosa_ the germen is broadly obovate and the stigma capitate; here the germen is globose and the stigma has five points." ❋ John Wood (N/A)

This has been observed in pelargoniums and in the Chinese primrose, in both of which the effect was to replace the umbellate form of inflorescence by a capitate one. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Spikes 1/6 to 1/4 inch or a little more, capitate, spreading. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The spikelets are sessile, 3 to 12 flowered, 2 to 3-seriate, secund, laterally compressed and forming digitate whorled or capitate spikes, not joined at the base; rachilla continuous between the flowering glumes. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

—The capitate articulates with seven bones: the navicular and lunate proximally, the second, third, and fourth metacarpals distally, the lesser multangular on the radial side, and the hamate on the ulnar side. ❋ Unknown (1918)

—The navicular articulates with five bones: the radius proximally, greater and lesser multangulars distally, and capitate and lunate medially. ❋ Unknown (1918)

—The lunate articulates with five bones: the radius proximally, capitate and hamate distally, navicular laterally, and triangular medially. ❋ Unknown (1918)

—The hamate articulates with five bones: the lunate proximally, the fourth and fifth metacarpals distally, the triangular medially, the capitate laterally. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The inferior surface is deeply concave, and of greater extent from before backward than transversely: it articulates with the head of the capitate, and, by a long, narrow facet (separated by a ridge from the general surface), with the hamate. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The medial surface presents two articular facets; of these, the superior or smaller is flattened of semilunar form, and articulates with the lunate bone; the inferior or larger is concave, forming with the lunate a concavity for the head of the capitate bone. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The medial surface is concave and smooth in front, for articulation with the capitate; rough behind, for the attachment of an interosseous ligament. ❋ Unknown (1918)

—The lesser multangular articulates with four bones: the navicular proximally, second metacarpal distally, greater multangular laterally, and capitate medially. ❋ Unknown (1918)

—The capitate bone is the largest of the carpal bones, and occupies the center of the wrist. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The lateral surface articulates with the capitate by its upper and posterior part, the remaining portion being rough, for the attachment of ligaments. ❋ Unknown (1918)

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