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umbilicus
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Umbilicus is a genus of over ninety species of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae . Many of its species have been given synonyms under different genera such as Rosularia , Cotyledon , and Chiastophyllum . However, those that remain in Umbilicus ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Umbilicus \Um`bi*li"cus\, n. [L. See Umbilic .] (Anat.) The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel. (Gr. & Rom. Antiq.) An ornamented or painted ball ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. scar where the umbilical cord was attached [syn: navel , bellybutton , omphalos , omphalus ] [also: umbilici (pl)]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"navel," 1610s, from Latin umbilicus "the navel," also "the center" of anything, from PIE *ombh-alo- , suffixed variant form of root *(o)nobh- "navel" (see navel ). In English, mostly confined to medical writing. Latin umbilicus is source of Spanish ombligo ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) navel 2 (context botany English) hilum 3 (context zoology English) A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells. 4 (context zoology English) Either of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather. ...
Usage examples of umbilicus.
Palpation revealed a cystic immobile tumor, extending 2 inches above the umbilicus and apparently fixed by deep adhesions.
The woman, aged twenty-two, was pale, diminutive in size, and showed an enormous abdomen, which measured 50 inches in circumference at the umbilicus and 27 inches from the ensiform cartilage to the pubes.
They were healthy girls, four years of age, and apparently perfect in every respect, except that, from the ensiform cartilage to the umbilicus, they were united by a band 4 inches long and 2 inches wide.
An incision was made from the ensiform cartilage to the umbilicus, the aneurysm exposed, and its cavity filled up with two meters of silver-plated wire.
The abdomen in its largest circumference measured 68 inches, and 27 inches from the ensiform cartilage to the umbilicus.
Australia will colonize the islands to its north and connect by some isthmian umbilicus to Asia.
The girl was healthy and well developed, and from the middle line of her body between the xiphoid cartilage and the umbilicus, attached by a soft pedicle, was an accessory individual, irregular, of ovoid shape, the smaller end, representing the head, being upward.
There is a case described of a man who evidently suffered from a patent urachus, as the urine passed in jets as if controlled by a sphincter from his umbilicus.
It was linked to Brownsville by the twenty-five mile umbilicus of Route 77, The George Brell residence was at 18 Linden Way, Wentwood.
Psych, was largely responsible for the manship umbilicus, and he told every new class of tyros the same thing.
Umbilicum dictum aiunt ab umbilico nostro, quod is medius locus sit terrarum, ut umbilicus in nobis: quod utrumque est falsum.
The case of Meibomius was that of an infant, and the case mentioned by Rhodius was associated with hemorrhages from the lungs, umbilicus, thigh, and tooth-cavity.
Jaeger in 1770 at Tubingen describes the metastasis of milk to the umbilicus, Haen to the back, and Schurig to a wound in the foot.
The microcephalic shoved a broad thumb against the supine figure in the area between the umbilicus and the breasthone.
Unable to detach themselves as he did, unable to novocaine their emotional umbilicus, they sought halfway answers in subjective inadequacy.