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umbilicus::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | belly button, bellybutton, navel, omphalos, omphalus |
| Type of | point |
| Derivation | umbilical |
Examples of umbilicus
umbilicus
The stomach is in the top part of the abdomen above the umbilicus, or belly button.
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There is usually one about the ensiform cartilage, one at the umbilicus, and one between.
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Gurcharan Das is correct that the umbilicus was strangling the baby.
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The umbilicus is small and shallow, the suture only slightly sinuous.
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It originates at the pubic bone and is inserted into the linea alba half way up to the umbilicus.
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Younger children may have difficulty with words such as umbilicus, which is another word for belly button.
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One might like to regard the umbilicus as the throat of a wormhole, but the spacetime is simply connected.
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Or cicatrix-pitted more or less With scar of an umbilicus?
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Ventral grooves run from the lower jaw to the umbilicus about halfway along the underside of the whale.
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- Navel: a scar where the umbilical cord was attached; "you were not supposed to show your navel on television"; "they argued whether or not Adam had a navel"; "she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton"
- Umbilicus is a genus of over ninety species of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae. Many of its species have been given synonyms under different genera such as Rosularia, Cotyledon, and Chiastophyllum. ...
- The umbilicus of a shell is the axially aligned, hollow cone-shaped space within the whorls of a coiled mollusk shell. The term umbilicus is often used in descriptions of gastropod shells, i.e. ...
- Navel
- Basal hollow in columella, in gastropod molluscs.
- The recessed center of an ammonite or nautilus shell.
- The site where the umbilical cord was attached to the fetus; commonly called the navel.
- The lower open axis around which the whorls of a gastropods are coiled.
- Medical term for the bellybutton.
