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umbilical

  • adjective
  • /ʌmˈbɪ.lɪ.kəl/

Of, or relating to, the navel (umbilicus) or the umbilical cord.

Other meanings

  1. Such that the curvatures of normal sections are all equal to each other.

Related words

  • infraumbilical
  • nonumbilical
  • parumbilical
  • periumbilical
  • supraumbilical
  • transumbilical
  • umbilically
  • vesicoumbilical
  • paraumbilical
  • postumbilical
  • pseudoumbilical
  • subumbilical

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This definition is adapted from “umbilical” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.