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Umbilical adj.

(Anat.) Of or pertaining to an umbilicus, or umbilical cord; umbilic.

Pertaining to the center; central. (R.)

Umbilical cord.

(a)

(Anat.) The cord which connects the fetus with the placenta, and contains the arteries and the vein through which blood circulates between the fetus and the placenta; the navel-string.

(b)

(Bot.) The little stem by which the seeds are attached to the placenta; called also funicular cord.

Umbilical hernia (Med.), hernia of the bowels at the umbilicus.

Umbilical point (Geom.), an umbilicus. See Umbilicus, 5.

Umbilical region (Anat.), the middle region of the abdomen, bounded above by the epigastric region, below by the hypogastric region, and on the sides by the lumbar regions.

Umbilical vesicle (Anat.), a saccular appendage of the developing embryo, containing the nutritive and unsegmented part of the ovum; the yolk sac.

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Etymology of 'Umbilical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Umbilical" Quotes from Famous Books

... suit them for the climate (which is the final cause;) so that betwixt them both, all the tenements of their souls, from top to bottom, may be nothing else, for aught the soundest philosophy can shew to the contrary, but one fine transparent body of clear glass (bating the umbilical knot)—so that, till the inhabitants grow old and tolerably wrinkled, whereby the rays of light, in passing through them, become so monstrously refracted,—or return reflected from their surfaces in such transverse lines to the eye, that a man cannot be seen ...

— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne

Words linked to "Umbilical" : fetus, vena umbilicalis, duct, fetal membrane, embryo, channel, umbilical vein, epithelial duct, foetus, conceptus, umbilical cord, funiculus, umbilicus, fertilized egg, canal, umbilical hernia, umbilical vesicle