umbilicus
IPA: ʌmbˈɪɫɪkʌs
noun
- (anatomy) navel
- (botany) hilum
- (zoology) A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
- (zoology) Either of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
- (space science) A tube connecting an astronaut or spacecraft to the mothership, through which supplies and samples can be transferred.
- (geometry, obsolete) One of the foci of an ellipse or other curve.
- (geometry) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other.
- (historical) An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
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Examples of "umbilicus" in Sentences
- The ruka sprang off and approached, trailing the noga's thick "umbilicus" across a shoulder.
- The umbilicus is a cicatrix formed after the metamorphosis of a median foetal structure -- the placental cord, &c.
- These are what is called the umbilicus, for this is a blood-vessel, consisting of one or more vessels in different animals.
- The umbilicus is the external structure that is comprised of several structures that are necessary while the foal is in the womb.
- NAUKAASANA, PAVANAMUKTAASANA etc, which stimulate the VAATA STHAANA region of umbilicus which is supposed to remarkably and beneficially affect the spinal cord function.
- The upper jaw of the animal was fixed in the left side of the belly, forming a semicircular wound of which a point one inch to the left of the umbilicus was the upper boundary, and the lower part of the upper third of the thigh, the lower boundary.
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