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What (who) is Umbilicus - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Umbilicus (disambiguation)
umbilicus
[?m'b?l?k?s, ??mb?'l??k?s]
¦ noun (plural umbilici -s?? or umbilicuses)
1. Anatomy the navel.
2. Zoology a central depression or hole in the whorl of some gastropod molluscs and many ammonites.
3. Zoology a hole at each end of the hollow shaft of a feather.
Origin
C17: from L.: related to Gk omphalos, also to navel.
Umbilicus
·noun The Hilum.
II. Umbilicus ·noun One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve.
III. Umbilicus ·noun Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
IV. Umbilicus ·noun A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
V. Umbilicus ·noun An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
VI. 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.
VII. 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.
Umbilicus (plant)
GENUS OF PLANTS
Umbilicus (genus)
Umbilicus is a genus of over ninety species of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae. Many of its species have been given synonyms under different genera such as Rosularia, Cotyledon, and Chiastophyllum.
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Umbilicus
Umbilicus may refer to:
- The navel or belly button
- Umbilicus (mollusc), a feature of gastropod, Nautilus and Ammonite shell anatomy
- Umbilicus (plant), a genus of over ninety species of perennial flowering plants
- Umbilicus urbis Romae, the designated center of the city of Rome from which and to which all distances in Rome and the Roman Empire were measured
- Umbilicus mundi, or "the world's navel", a Greek artifact
- Umbilicus, an American rock band that includes members of death metal bands.
Examples of use of Umbilicus
1. The vagina is echoed by the baby‘s buttocks and feet, from which the other end of the umbilicus protrudes.