Of the link between mother and baby?

Usage examples of umbilical.

The constricting band was formed by a coalition of the xiphoid cartilages and the umbilical vessels, surrounded by areolar tissue and covered with skin.

If coming out into civvies had been a shock to Dillon, it must have been traumatic for Harry, like being severed from the umbilical cord all over again.

He thumbed the comm link inside the helmet, not knowing if the umbilical would still carry his message to the surface, much less to the Hawkbill or the Rushmore.

Jabbar cut the umbilical, then Hidey held the child by the legs as he patted its buttocks.

Yellow huffers were attached to each aircraft by an umbilical, powering the jets to provide air-conditioning, but the hot sun baking down through the shaded canopies still raised the interior temperature to unholy levels.

The medial umbilical ligament was a mess, and they had almost lost him because his superior mesenteric artery was pierced and pumping blood into his abdominal cavity, causing a life-threatening drop in blood pressure.

She died at sixty-one of peripneumonia, and on postmortem examination a tumor was found occupying part of the hypogastric and umbilical regions.

It found the outflow pipe of the helmet and thrust its mouth into the funnel, its tongue anchoring it like some vampiric umbilical cord.

We were dealing with a prolapsed umbilical and the placenta had torn away from the uterus wall.

In its abdomen was found a fetus weighing almost two pounds and connected to the child by a cord resembling an umbilical cord.

Now, while Bigfoot went after the other umbilicals, Saber retrieved the remote and checked the readings.

She started for the cargo hatch while Bigfoot shut down, jerked the umbilical out of the fuel receptacle, capped it, and closed and secured the latch.

As specifically configured for UpLink International, the sixty TRAP T-2s situated around the Cosmodrome consisted of a mix of tripod-mounted VVRS M16 assault rifles and Heckler Koch MSG semiautomatic shotguns linked via microwave video, fiber-optic umbilical cable, and precision target-acquisition-and-firing software to man-portable control stations with handheld viewfinders and triggering units.

From up here on the ridge, two thousand feet above Santa Clara Valley, spread a view of the umbilical lines of light connecting sixty miles of solid megacity that stretched all the way from San Francisco to San Jose.

After each birth, Nao Kao cut the umbilical cord with heated scissors and tied it with string.