Umbilical

Word UMBILICAL
Character 9
Hyphenation um bil ic al
Pronunciations /ʌmbɪlˈaɪ.kəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Umbilical"

What do we mean by umbilical?

Of, relating to, or resembling a navel or an umbilical cord. adjective

Located near the central area of the abdomen. adjective

An umbilical cord. noun

Of or pertaining to the umbilicus; umbilic; umphalic.

Formed or placed like a navel; navel-shaped; central.

Connected through the female line of descent.

In botany, same as funicle, 4.

Of or pertaining to an umbilicus, or umbilical cord; umbilic. adjective

Pertaining to the center; central. adjective

The little stem by which the seeds are attached to the placenta; -- called also funicular cord. adjective

Hernia of the bowels at the umbilicus. adjective

An umbilicus. See Umbilicus, 5. adjective

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. adjective

A saccular appendage of the developing embryo, containing the nutritive and unsegmented part of the ovum; the yolk sac. See Illust. in Appendix. adjective

Of, or relating to, the navel (umbilicus) or the umbilical cord. adjective

A cord connecting an astronaut to a spacecraft or the like. noun

Relating to or resembling the umbilicus adjective

Membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta noun

A cord connecting an astronaut to a spacecraft, or a craft to ground control prior to launch, etc.

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The word "umbilical" in example sentences

_ -- In the treatment of umbilical hernia it should be remembered that congenital hernias are often removed with age, but probably congenital _umbilical hernias_ less frequently than others. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

Until the umbilical is cut between growth and the land use agencies growth funds, these agencies will continue to work to hide the impacts of growth from the taxpayers while approving anything that comes before them and while our roads and infrastructure are increasingly congested. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A lot of -- connecting some power, some what are called umbilical cords, basically protecting the solar arrays from the really intense heat and cold that's going on up there. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The other side is attached to a structure called the umbilical cord, which connects the placenta to the baby (see Figure 4.4). ❋ Unknown (1995)

This cord is a part of what is called the umbilical cord, and it is this that joins the embryo to the mother. ❋ Winfield Scott Hall (N/A)

Rupture at the navel is called umbilical hernia; that in the groin either inguinal or femoral, according to slight differences in site. ❋ Kenelm Winslow (N/A)

Between the fore-gut and the hind-gut there exists for a time a wide opening into the yolk-sac, but the latter is gradually reduced to a small pear-shaped sac (sometimes termed the umbilical vesicle), and the channel of communication is at the same time narrowed and elongated to form a tube called the vitelline duct. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Having passed through the umbilical opening, the two arteries, now termed umbilical, enter the umbilical cord, where they are coiled around the umbilical vein, and ultimately ramify in the placenta. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The growing fetus is connected with this vascular organ by means of a sort of cable, called the umbilical cord. ❋ Unknown (1877)

The pedicle of the allantois, which connects the embryo with the placenta and conducts the strong umbilical vessels from the former to the latter, is covered by the amnion, and, with this amniotic sheath and the pedicle of the yelk-sac, forms what is called the umbilical cord (Figure 1.196 al). ❋ Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1876)

They are called umbilical vessels, and are originally double -- a pair of umbilical arteries and a pair of umbilical veins. ❋ Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1876)

The ventral appendage, growing smaller and smaller, is afterwards called the umbilical (navel) vesicle. ❋ Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1876)

When you were being formed inside your mother's uterus, you were connected from your abdomen to her body by a rope-like tube called the umbilical cord.

The PSLV, which stands on a mobile platform, will be wheeled on rail tracks to the launch pad, also called the umbilical tower, which is one km away. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For when the nourishment coming through the umbilical cord is no longer sufficient for the foetus because of its size, then at the same time the milk becomes useful for the nourishment of the newly-born animal, and the blood-vessels round which the so-called umbilical cord lies as a coat collapse as the nourishment is no longer passing through it; for these reasons it is at that time also that the young animal enters into the world. ❋ Unknown (2002)

It's industrial, it's gray, there's rainy skies, there's a plaid shirt, there's ripped jeans, there's thrift-shop jumpers with holes in them, and this kind of umbilical roar from Kurt Cobain. ❋ Assayas, Michka (2005)

Kids on the playground like to use the words innie and outie to describe their belly buttons, but if an outie is a “way outie,” that’s called an umbilical hernia pictured here. ❋ Michael F. Roizen (2010)

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