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Found 1 definition: umbilical.

Pos: Adjective, Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun umbilical has 1 senses

umbilical(n = noun.body) umbilical cord - membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta;
is a kind of canal, channel, duct, epithelial duct, funiculus, fetal membrane
is a part of conceptus, embryo, fertilized egg, fetus, foetus
has parts: umbilical vein, vena umbilicalis

Adjective umbilical has 1 senses

umbilical(a = adj.pert) - relating to or resembling the umbilicus; "umbilical cord"
Derived form noun umbilicus₁

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

umbilical, a. [Cf. F. ombilical. See Umbilic, n.].

1. Of or pertaining to an umbilicus, or umbilical cord; umbilic. [1913 Webster]

2. Pertaining to the center; central. DeFoe. [1913 Webster]

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. See Illust. in Appendix.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

umbilical, adj.
1 of, situated near, or affecting the navel.
2 centrally placed.

Idiom:
umbilical cord
1 a flexible cordlike structure attaching a foetus to the placenta.
2 Astronaut. a supply cable linking a missile to its launcher, or an astronaut in space to a spacecraft.

Etymology:
obs. F umbilical or f. UMBILICUS

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Centrality

N centrality, centricalness, center, middle, focus, core, kernel, nucleus, nucleolus, heart, pole axis, bull's eye, nave, navel, umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith, vertebra, vertebral column, hotbed, concentration, centralization, symmetry, center of gravity, center of pressure, center of percussion, center of oscillation, center of buoyancy, metacenter, central, centrical, middle, azygous, axial, focal, umbilical, concentric, middlemost, rachidian, spinal, vertebral, middle, midst, centrally.