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Canula (kan'-u-lah). See Cannula. 



Canutillo (kahn-oo-tel'-yo). See Tepopote. 



Caoutchouc (koo-chook') [S. American]. India-rubber. 

 The chief substance contained in the milky juice that 

 exudes upon incision of a number of tropical trees 

 belonging to the natural orders Euphorbiacece, Arto- 

 carpaceie, and Apocynacece. The juice is a vegetable 

 emulsion, the caoutchouc being suspended in it in the 

 form of minute transparent globules. When pure, 

 caoutchouc is nearly white, soft, elastic, and glutinous ; 

 it swells up in water without dissolving ; the best 

 solvents are carbon disulphid and chloroform. It 

 melts at about 150 C. , and decomposes at 200 C. 



Capacity [kap-as' -it-e) [capacitas, capacity]. Mental 

 receptivity ; passive (or active) mental capability ; moral 

 or legal responsibility. C, Vital. See Vital. 



Capax Doli [ka'-paks do'-li). See Doli Capax. 



Capelina (kap-el-i'-nah). See Capistrum. 



Capeline (kap'-el-in). See Bandage. 



Capeman's Method. See Treatment, Methods of 



Caper (ha' -per). See Capparis. 



Capiat (ka'-pe-at) [L. ," let it take]. An instrument 

 intended for use in removing remnants of the placenta, 

 polypi, or the like, from the uterine cavity. 



Capillaire (kap-il-dr') [Fr.]. The plant Adiantum capil- 

 lus veneris, a species of maiden-hair fern ; also a 

 cough-syrup prepared from the same. See Adiantum. 



Capillarity (kap-il-ar 1 '-it-e) [capillus, a hair]. Capillary 

 attraction : the force that causes fluids to rise in fine 

 tubes or bores, or in very thin chinks. In an electric 

 battery, the disturbing effects of the proper action of 

 a voltaic cell caused by capillary action. 



Capillary (kap'-il-a-re, or kap-il' '-ar-e) [capillus, a hair]. 

 I. A minute blood-vessel connecting the smallest 

 ramifications of the arteries with those of the veins. 

 Also a very minute fissure of the skull. Also the 

 intercellular biliary passages. 2. Hair-like : relating 

 to a hair, or to a hair-like filament, or to a tube with 

 a hair-like bore. C. Attraction capillarity. C. Bron- 

 chitis. See Bronchitis. C. Embolism. See Embo- 

 lism. C. Fissure, C. Fracture, a linear fracture, 

 without displacement. C. Nevus. See Ncevus Vas- 

 cularis. C. Pulse, a visible change of color or an 

 artificial blush in aortic regurgitation. C. Vessels, 

 the capillaries. Capillaries, Meigs's, branching 

 capillaries discovered by A. V. Meigs in the human 

 heart. C, Pulmonary, a name used to designate the 

 plexuses beneath the mucous membrane, on the walls 

 and septa of the alveoli of the lungs. 



Capilli (kap-il'-i) [Plural of Capillus, hair]. In biol- 

 ogy, applied to the hairs on the front and top of an 

 insect's head. 



Capilliculture (kap-W -e-kul-chur) [capillus, hair; cul- 

 tura, culture]. Systematic treatment for the improve- 

 ment or restoration of the hair. 



Capilliculus (kap-il-ik' -u-lus) [dim. of capillus: pi., 

 Capillicult]. Any one of the very smallest of the 

 capillary vesicles. 



Capillifolious (kap-il-if-o' -le-us) [capillus, hair ; folium, 

 a leaf]. Characterized by hair-like leaves. 



Capilliform (kap-W -if orm) [capillus, hair ; forma, 

 form]. Hair-shaped. 



Capillitium (kap-il-ish' -e-um) [capillus, the hair]. In 

 biology, the hair-like threads within the spore-cases 

 of many fungi. 



Capillus {kap-il'-us) [L. : //., Capilli]. A hair; the 

 hair of the head. 



Capistrum (kap-is'-trum) [L., a muzzle or halter: pi. , 

 Capistra\ I. A bandage for the head or for the 

 lower jaw. Called also Capelina. 2. In biology, a 

 mask or hood- like coloration of the face and part of 

 the head in certain birds. 



Capital {kap / -it-al) [caput, the head]. I. Pertaining 

 to the head, or to the summit of a body or object. 

 2. Of great importance ; as a capital operation in 

 surgery. 



Capitalis reflexa (kap-it-a' -lis re -fie ks' -ah). A recur- 

 rent bandage for a stump. 



Capitate (kap'-it-dt) [caput, head]. In biology, hav- 

 ing a head or a head -like termination. 



Capitellate (kap-it-el' -at) [capilellum, a little head]. In 

 biology, bearing small heads. 



Capitellum (kap-it-el' -um) [dim. of caput]. The 

 rounded, external surface of the lower end of the 

 humerus. 



Capitiluvium (kap-it-el-u' '-ve-um) [caput, head ; luere, 

 to wash] . A washing or bathing of the head ; a 

 wash for the head. 



Capitopedal (kap-it-o-ped'-al) [caput, a head ; pes, 

 foot]. In biology, pertaining to or near the junction 

 of the head and foot. 



Capitular (kap-it'-u-lar) [caput, head]. Pertaining to 

 a capitulum or head. C. Process of a vertebra, one 

 with which the head of a rib articulates. 



Capitulum (kap-if '-u-lum) [capitulum, a small head]. 

 In anatomy and biology, the enlarged terminal por- 

 tion of an organ, plant, or animal, as the head of a 

 bone ; the enlarged free portion of a stalked animal ; 

 the knobbed end of an antenna or of an insect's poiser ; 

 a dense cluster or head of flowers, leaves, or spores 

 in plants. C. of Santorini, a small elevation on the 

 apex of the arytenoid cartilage corresponding in posi- 

 tion to the posterior extremity of the vocal band. 



Cappa (kap'-ah). The ectocinereal lamina of the mesen- 

 cephal. 



Cappagh Brown. See Pigments, Conspectus of. 



Capparis (kap / -ar-is) [L., the caper-bush]. A genus 

 of shrubs including the caper-bush, C. spinosa. Its 

 flower-buds (capers) are pickled, or made into a 

 piquant sauce. The bark of the root and the flowers 

 are official remedies in some countries (as Spain) ; it is 

 diuretic, cathartic, depurative, stimulant. Unof. 



Cappazwoli's Test. See Tests, Table of. 



Capped Elbow (kapdel'-bow). See Shoe-boil. 



Capped Hock (kapd' hok). In farriery, the develop- 

 ment of a bruise at the point of the hock of a horse, 

 with the formation of an hygroma, the result of rub- 

 bing or striking that part against the partition of the 

 stall. 



Capped Knee (kapd' ne). A dropsical collection in the 

 bursa in front of the knee-joint of the horse. 



Capranica's Tests. See Tests, Table of. 



Caprantilopine (kap-ran-til' -o-pin) [capra, a she-goat ; 

 antilopinus, antelope]. Uniting the characters of a 

 goat and an antelope. 



Capre (kap'-er). See Mulatto. 



Capreolar (kap-re'-o-lar), Capreolary (kaf/ -re-o-la-re) , 

 Capreolate (leap' -re-o-ldt) [capreolus, a tendril]. In 

 biology, climbing, furnished with tendrils ; in anatomy, 

 resembling tendrils, as the spermatic vessels, vase, 

 capreolaria. C. Vessels, the spermatic vessels, 

 from their twined and twisted appearance. 



Capreolus (kap-re' -o-lus) [capreolus, a wild goat ; a 

 tendril of a plant]. I. A buck or he-goat. 2. The 

 tendril of a plant. 



Capric Acid (kap'-rik as' -id). See Acid. 



Caprification (kap-rif-ik-a' -shun) [caprificus, the wild- 

 fig tree]. In biology, the process of hastening ferti- 

 lization and ripening of cultivated figs by the introduc- 

 tion of gall-insects, by hanging a branch of the wild 

 fig in the tree, or planting a wild fig in the midst of 

 the fig orchard. 



Caprify (kaf-rif-t) [caprificus, the wild-fig tree]. To 

 fertilize by means of Caprification, a. v. 



