Medical Definition of Cacumen
1. The top or apex of a plant or an anatomical structure. Origin: L. Summit (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cacumen
Literary usage of Cacumen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"Local, 'at the copp,' from residence at the top or cop of the hill, or eminence.
'Coppe: top of an hey thyng ; cacumen ' (Prompt. Parv.). ..."
2. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1885)
"Compare the following glosses : — C 82 cacumen: summitas. ... stimmi fas cacumen.
V 79 vertex: summitas capitis et cacumen mentis. ..."
3. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"... cm incurable passion, lu. cacumen, inis, п., an extremity, point, peak, ...
are [ cacumen ], to make ..."
4. Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Döderlein, Samuel Harvey Taylor, Henry Hamilton Arnold (1875)
"Acumen and cacumen mean a natural head or top ; acumen, of a cone, beak, and so
forth ; cacumen, particularly that of a mountain : mucro and cuspis mean an ..."
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