caput

1. (anatomy) The head.

2. (anatomy) A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.

3. (UK) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.Examples: "D. has been engaged, he tells me, through a course of laborious years, in an investigation into all curious matter connected with the two Universities; and has lately lit upon a MS. collection of charters, relative to C⁠⸺, by which he hopes to settle some disputed points—particularly that long controversy between them as to priority of foundation. The ardor with which he engages in these liberal pursuits, I am afraid, has not met with all the encouragement it deserved, either here, or at C⁠⸺. Your caputs, and heads of colleges, care less than any body else about these questions."

4. (medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of caput succedaneum.