Definitions for umbilicusʌmˈbɪl ɪ kəs, ˌʌm bəˈlaɪ kəs; -ˈbɪl əˌsaɪ, -bəˈlaɪ saɪ
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
um•bil•i•cusʌmˈbɪl ɪ kəs, ˌʌm bəˈlaɪ kəs; -ˈbɪl əˌsaɪ, -bəˈlaɪ saɪ(n.)(pl.)-bil•i•ci
Category: Anatomy
Ref: navel (def. 1). 1
a navellike formation, as the hilum of a seed.
Category: Botany
Origin of umbilicus:
1605–15; < L umbilīcus navel
Princeton's WordNet
navel, umbilicus, bellybutton, belly button, omphalos, omphalus(noun)
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"
Wiktionary
umbilicus(Noun)
navel
Origin: From umbilicus.
Webster Dictionary
Umbilicus(noun)
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
Umbilicus(noun)
an ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled
Umbilicus(noun)
the hilum
Umbilicus(noun)
a depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells
Umbilicus(noun)
either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather
Umbilicus(noun)
one of foci of an ellipse, or other curve
Umbilicus(noun)
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
U.S. National Library of Medicine
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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