Crossword clues for umbilical
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Umbilical \Um*bil"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. ombilical. See Umbilic, n.]
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to an umbilicus, or umbilical cord; umbilic.
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Pertaining to the center; central. [R.] --De Foe. Umbilical cord.
(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.
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(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. See Illust. in Appendix.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to the navel," 1540s, from Medieval Latin umbilicalis "of the navel," from Latin umbilicus "navel" (see umbilicus). Umbilical cord attested by 1753 (the native term is navel string).
Wiktionary
a. Of, or relating to, the navel (umbilicus) or the umbilical cord. n. (context astronautics English) A cord connecting an astronaut to a spacecraft or the like.
WordNet
adj. relating to or resembling the umbilicus; "umbilical cord"
Wikipedia
Umbilical may refer to:
- Umbilical cable
- Umbilical cord
- Umbilical fold
- Umbilical hernia
- Umbilical notch
- Umbilical vessels
- Umbilical artery
- Umbilical vein
- Umbilical zone
- The Umbilical Brothers, two Australian comedic performers, David and Shane
- Umbilical point, a locally spherical point on a mathematical surface.
- Umbilical region
- Umbilical (album), a 2011 album of Tiago Iorc, Brazilian musician
Umbilical is the second studio album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Tiago Iorc, released October 2011.
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.