Usually means: Head, especially of a bone.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. caput: Collins English Dictionary
  2. caput: Vocabulary.com
  3. Caput, caput: Wordnik
  4. caput: Wiktionary
  5. caput: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. caput: Dictionary.com
  7. Caput: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Caput: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. caput: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. caput: Rhymezone
  11. Caput: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. caput: FreeDictionary.org
  13. caput: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. caput: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Caput: Investopedia
  4. caput: Legal dictionary
  5. Caput: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caput: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. caput: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Caput: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  6. caput: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  7. caput: Medical dictionary
  8. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAPUT: Acronym Finder
  2. caput: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. caput: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. caput: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. caput: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (caput)

noun:  (anatomy) The head.
noun:  (anatomy) A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
noun:  The top or superior part of a thing.
noun:  (UK) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
noun:  (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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