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capitellum
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capitellum /cap·i·tel·lum/ (kap″ĭ-tel´um) capitulum.
cap·i·tel·lum (kp-tlm)
n. pl. cap·i·tel·la (-tl)
1. Capitulum.
2. The rounded protuberance at the lower end of the humerus that articulates with the radius.


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Carmela Cuomo, a geologist and benthic (seafloor) ecologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has discovered that larvae of this centimeter-long shallow-water worm of the Capitella genus find and settle into the desolate patches brimming with sulfides by somehow tracking the sulfide molecules that escape into the water.
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