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umbilical cord
Word definitions for umbilical cord in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) The flexible structure connecting a foetus with the placenta; which transports nourishment to the foetus and removes waste. 2 (''aerospace'') The line that supplies an astronaut with oxygen and communications when outside ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In placental mammals , the umbilical cord (also called the navel string , birth cord or funiculus umbilicalis ) is a conduit between the developing embryo or fetus and the placenta . During prenatal development , the umbilical cord is physiologically and ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A girl born with the umbilical cord twisted round her neck may feel that she always gets herself tied up in things. ▪ As events would prove, it was a frail umbilical cord from the customer to design and manufacturing. ▪ Don't ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Navel-string \Na"vel-string`\, n. The umbilical cord .
Usage examples of umbilical cord.
In color it was the same sickly yellow as the umbilical cord that had been attached to Theresa.
He climbed out and teetered on the lip of the hatch, coiling the umbilical cord attached to his suit.
This was an unattractive fleshy mass like a thick, veined pancake with the umbilical cord attached to its middle.
Pressing down gently but firmly on Sarah's tummy with one hand, she proceeds to tug carefully on the umbilical cord and, waiting for the next contraction, she allows the placenta to slide out.
It was trying to plunge the end of its severed umbilical cord into Hawk's neck, but he'd given up his hold on the demon's body to grab the unbilical's snapping end with both hands.
There were still ten meters of stern line, of white nylon umbilical cord, coiled by a cleat on the main deck.
Can weakness be inherited in the genes or passed like poison through the umbilical cord?
It seemed improbable that she should remember the feel of her own umbilical cord being wrapped around her neck at birth, that she could recall the murderous look on her mother's face as she prepared to kill her evil-omened twins.
When the women did not react, he took hold of his umbilical cord in both hands and kinked it tightly, cutting off the blood supply to his body.
Gently hefting the symbiont in his left hand, he touched the tip of the compact, gleaming cylinder to a point about six centimeters down the length of the umbilical cord.
After much study I concluded that these were actually the ends of bindings between the worldsa sort of umbilical cord.