caput vs swelling

swelling vs caput

caput and swelling both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
caput	Yes	No	No	No
swelling	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, swelling is a hypernym of caput; that is, swelling is a word with a broader meaning than caput:

caput: a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure
swelling: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

Other hypernyms of caput include bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance.

caput (noun)	swelling (noun)
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains	the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure	something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
	an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

Difference between caput and swelling

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