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umbilicus

[ UK /ʌmbˈɪlɪkəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a scar where the umbilical cord was attached
    she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton
    you were not supposed to show your navel on television
    they argued whether or not Adam had a navel

How To Use umbilicus In A Sentence

  • The umbilicus was relocated, defatted and sutured with 4-0 PDS sutures at the 2, 4, 8 and 10 o'clock positions to create an innie.
  • On the bottom of the bottle was a scar not unlike an umbilicus, where an iron pontil rod had held the hot, freshly blown bottle while its neck was being shaped. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
  • The ventral surface of the pouch is covered by grooved blubber, on which the 50-90 grooves extend from the jaw tips to as far posteriorly as the umbilicus. Archive 2006-10-01
  • There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. THE DISPOSSESSED
  • This condition is well defined by Bollinger as quoted by Hoare, [1] when he calls it a purulent omphalophlebitis due to local infection of the umbilicus and umbilical vessels, by pyogenic organisms, causing a metastatic pyemia. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • Characteristically, psoriasis is symmetrically distributed, with lesions frequently located on the ears, elbows, knees, umbilicus, gluteal cleft and genitalia.
  • After birth, it is represented by the median umbilical ligament, which extends from the dome or anterior wall of the bladder to the umbilicus.
  • Beneath the umbilicus, N, and on either side of it as far outwards as the lower asternal ribs, K L, thus ranging the abdominal parietes transversely, percussion discovers the transverse colon, O, P, O*. Surgical Anatomy
  • The second lineage contained A. nitida, which became more involute and axially compressed on the umbilical side, and its first descendant, A. mckannai, which developed evolute coiling and a moderately wide umbilicus.
  • The Romans called the point at which the cord connecting the fetus with the placenta was cut and tied off the umbilicus, from umbo, “knob, projection.” No Uncertain Terms
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