UMBILICUS
\ʌmbˈɪlɪkəs], \ʌmbˈɪlɪkəs], \ʌ_m_b_ˈɪ_l_ɪ_k_ə_s]\
Definitions of UMBILICUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
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The hilum.
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A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
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Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
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One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
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The hilum.
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A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
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Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
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One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The pit in the center of the abdominal wall marking the point where the umbilical cord entered in the fetus.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The pit in the center of the abdominal wall marking the point where the umbilical cord entered in the fetus; the navel, "belly button.".
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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The navel; a genus of plants, the navel-wort; the small cord-like process which attaches the seed to the placenta; the hollow in a spiral shell.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The navel; in bot., the scar by which a seed is attached to the placenta, more commonly called the hilum; in conch., the conical depression at the base of a univalve shell.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The navel; the central abdominal depression at the place of attachment of umbilical cord; the hilum; a basal depression of certain spiral shells; either of the two openings near the base of a feather.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Infundibulums (Hypophysis)
- or post-neural lobe gland. infundibulum is considered part of the posterior pituitary by most authors.