1. The upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
   "The archaeologist carefully excavated the intact caput";
   - head, bean [informal], bonce [Brit, informal], noodle [informal], noggin [informal], dome [informal], nob [informal], napper [Brit, informal], skull [informal], nut [informal], melon [informal]
    
2. 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";
   - head

Derived forms: capita

Type of: bulge, bump, excrescence, external body part, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, human head, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling

Part of: animal, animate being, body, organic structure

Encyclopedia: Caput, Missouri