[
UK
/ʌmbˈɪlɪkəs/
]
NOUN
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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