umbilical
IPA: ʌmbˈɪɫɪkʌɫ
noun
- (astronautics) A cord connecting an astronaut to a spacecraft, or a craft to ground control prior to launch, etc.
adjective
- Of, or relating to, the navel (umbilicus) or the umbilical cord.
- (mathematics) Such that the curvatures of normal sections are all equal to each other.
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Examples of "umbilical" in Sentences
- This cord is a part of what is called the umbilical cord, and it is this that joins the embryo to the mother.
- The growing fetus is connected with this vascular organ by means of a sort of cable, called the umbilical cord.
- The other side is attached to a structure called the umbilical cord, which connects the placenta to the baby (see Figure 4.4).
- Rupture at the navel is called umbilical hernia; that in the groin either inguinal or femoral, according to slight differences in site.
- A lot of -- connecting some power, some what are called umbilical cords, basically protecting the solar arrays from the really intense heat and cold that's going on up there.
- _ -- In the treatment of umbilical hernia it should be remembered that congenital hernias are often removed with age, but probably congenital _umbilical hernias_ less frequently than others.
- Having passed through the umbilical opening, the two arteries, now termed umbilical, enter the umbilical cord, where they are coiled around the umbilical vein, and ultimately ramify in the placenta.
- Until the umbilical is cut between growth and the land use agencies growth funds, these agencies will continue to work to hide the impacts of growth from the taxpayers while approving anything that comes before them and while our roads and infrastructure are increasingly congested.
- The pedicle of the allantois, which connects the embryo with the placenta and conducts the strong umbilical vessels from the former to the latter, is covered by the amnion, and, with this amniotic sheath and the pedicle of the yelk-sac, forms what is called the umbilical cord (Figure 1.196 al).
- Between the fore-gut and the hind-gut there exists for a time a wide opening into the yolk-sac, but the latter is gradually reduced to a small pear-shaped sac (sometimes termed the umbilical vesicle), and the channel of communication is at the same time narrowed and elongated to form a tube called the vitelline duct.
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