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/əmbˈɪlɪkəl kɔrd/ Listen

adjective

Umbilical adj.

(Anat.) Of or pertaining to an umbilicus, or umbilical cord; umbilic.

Pertaining to the center; central. (R.)

Umbilical cord.

(a)

(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.

(b)

(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.

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"Umbilical cord" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Whereupon the umbilical cord is severed," he concluded, "and the human infant is ready to take its place in the world as a separate entity. ...

— The Venus Trap • Evelyn E. Smith

... So much for the umbilical cord that unites every living post-rational system to the matrix of human hopes. There remains a second point of contact between these systems and rational morality: the reinstated natural duties which all religions and philosophies, in order to subsist among civilised peoples, ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... you that this is their greatest pride, more than cutting the umbilical cord. And if you reflect, you will see that the same art which cultivates and gathers in the fruits of the earth, will be most likely to know in what soils the several plants ...

— Theaetetus • Plato

... Indian had applied his knowledge of individual births literally to a cosmic process, a genuine creation myth as a form of symbolic thinking. There seems little doubt in this case, that the sky, which to all savages appears like a bowl, represented the uterus and the rope, the umbilical cord. The resemblance of this myth to certain birth and parturition dreams, as encountered in the psychoanalytic investigations of civilized ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... for the umbilical cord that unites every living post-rational system to the matrix of human hopes. There remains a second point of contact between these systems and rational morality: the reinstated natural duties which all religions ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana