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1. (n.) umbilicus
a navellike formation, as the hilum of a seed.
Etymology: (1605–15; < L umbilīcus navel)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) navel, umbilicus, bellybutton, belly button, omphalos, omphalus
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"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Umbilicus
the depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel
2. (noun) Umbilicus
an ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled
3. (noun) Umbilicus
the hilum
4. (noun) Umbilicus
a depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells
5. (noun) Umbilicus
either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather
6. (noun) Umbilicus
one of foci of an ellipse, or other curve
7. (noun) Umbilicus
a point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. Umbilicus
The pit in the center of the ABDOMINAL WALL marking the point where the UMBILICAL CORD entered in the FETUS.
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