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单词 umbilicus
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umbilicusn.

Brit. /ʌmˈbɪlᵻkəs/, /ˌʌmbᵻˈlʌɪkəs/, U.S. /ˌəmˈbɪlᵻkəs/, /ˌəmbəˈlaɪkəs/
Forms: Plural umbilici /-ˈaɪsaɪ//-ɪsaɪ/.
Etymology: < Latin umbilīcus: see umbilic n.
1.
a. Anatomy. The central depression in the abdomen, marking the point of attachment of the umbilical cord; the navel.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun] > navel
naveleOE
navel-stead1581
nombril1604
navea1616
navel-hole1671
umbilicus1799
omphalodium1892
belly-button1934
tummy-button1945
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 80 They are called vasa vmbilicalia, because they passe through the Nauel which is called vmbilicus.
1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 297 Umbilicus, the Navel, is a Boss in the middle of the Abdomen, to which the Navel-string in a Fœtus is joined.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Abdomen The middle part of the Umbilical [region], is call'd the Umbilicus, or Navel.]
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 422 Immediately over the left rectus muscle, at its half intersection below the umbilicus.
1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 345 This tumour increased and extended towards the umbilicus.
1878 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) ii. v. 650 In which case the general symmetry of the belly is maintained, but the umbilicus is usually deeply sunk.
b. Botany. The part of a seed by which it is attached to the placenta.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > parts of > funicle
umbilical vessel1731
funiculus1732
podosperm1819
umbilical cord1819
retinaculum1821
funicle1824
umbilicus1837
umbilical bundle1875
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 89 They are then nourished by means of an umbilicus, which we cannot but regard as an external root.
1857 M. J. Berkeley Introd. Cryptogamic Bot. §108. 135 Acetabularia bears a whorl of threads,..seated on a delicate peduncle, with a few free-branched threads springing from the umbilicus.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1190/1 Umbilicus, the hilum of a seed; the scar formed by its separation from the placenta.
c. transferred. The central point.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > middle or centre > of a land, sea, or forest
navelOE
umbilicus1897
1897–8 G. T. Stokes Worthies Irish Ch. i. 5 Killare in the county of Westmeath, formerly regarded as the umbilicus of Ireland.
2. (See quot. 1688) Obsolete.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell
seashella900
shale1561
buckie1596
caracol1622
valve1661
spire1681
umbilicus1688
conch-shell1697
wart-shell?1711
needle1713
multivalve1753
concha1755
periosteum1758
conch1773
devil's claw1773
furbelow1776
peewit's egg1776
worm-tube1776
rosebud1815
sheath1815
periostracum1833
epicuticle1885
epicuticula1886
leg of mutton1891
trivalve1891
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 363/1 An Umbilicus or Navel shell..is a kind of writhen cockle or shell fish wrinkled and turned in on the top like a Navel.
3. Geometry.
a. A focus. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] > of intersection or contact > of specific lines or curves
cuspis1646
focus1656
point of reflection1674
umbilicus1704
cuspid1743
cusp1758
rhamphoid1814
biplanar1849
oscnode1852
tacnode1852
tangential of a point1858
cnicnode1869
uniplane1869
unode1869
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Umbelicus in an Ellipsis, &c. is that Focus about which the Motion of any Revolving Body is made, and which it respects as its Centre. So that either Focus may be called by this Name.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Moon These smaller [planets] must move in Ellipses having their Umbilici in the Centres of the larger.
b. A point in a surface through which all its lines of curvature pass.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] > on a surface or plane
conical point1812
umbilicus1841
stigma1863
binode1869
branch-point1878
saddle point1907
saddle1952
1841 J. R. Young Math Diss. ii. 36 The perplexities and mistakes in the theory of umbilici.
1863 P. Frost & J. Wolstenholme Treat. Solid Geom. 418 To determine the conditions for an umbilicus.
1863 P. Frost & J. Wolstenholme Treat. Solid Geom. 420 To determine the number of umbilici on a surface of the nth degree.
4. A small depression or hollow suggestive of a navel. (Chiefly in special applications.)
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > depression or cavity
pita1275
holec1300
cella1398
den1398
follicle?a1425
purse?a1425
pocketa1450
fossac1475
cystis1543
trench1565
conceptory1576
vesike1577
vesicle1578
vault1594
socket1601
bladderet1615
cistern1615
cavern1626
ventricle1641
bladder1661
antrum1684
conceptaculum1691
capsule1693
cellule1694
loculus1694
sinus1704
vesicula1705
vesica1706
fosse1710
pouch1712
cyst1721
air chamber1725
fossula1733
alveole1739
sac1741
sacculus1749
locule1751
compartment1772
air cell1774
fossule1803
umbilicus1811
conceptacle1819
cœlia1820
utricle1822
air sac1835
saccule1836
ampulla1845
vacuole1853
scrobicule1880
faveolus1882
a.Bot.
1811 R. Brown in Trans. Linn. Soc. 10 36 It is not accompanied by the usual position or even uniformity in the situation of the external umbilicus.
1812 S. Edwards New Bot. Garden I. 42 The berries are round with a depressed umbilicus.
1845 Florist's Jrnl. (1846) 6 196 In the umbilicus alone, whence the flowers appear, there are a few small brown rigid setæ rather than spines.
b.Ent.1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 190 Black, shining, impressed-punctate, cicatriculose; the punctures umbilicated, the umbilici perforate.1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 509 In Fulgora Diadema they [stemmata] are also umbilicated, but the umbilicus is circular.1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 380 An indistinct style inclosed in an umbilicus at its extremity.c.Zool.1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 147 The substance round which the turns are formed, is on the left side of the shell, and terminates at its base; sometimes in a point, and sometimes in a hollow, which is termed an umbilicus.1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 84 The umbilicus is small or obsolete in the typical nautili.1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 242/2 A variety of Helix hortensis..having..traces of white between the bands,..and white continuous over the umbilicus.d.Ornith.1879 T. Dunman Gloss. Biol. Terms 152 Umbilicus,..the name given to two apertures (superior and inferior) in the calamus of a bird's feather.e.Pathol.1886 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. II. 612 The cavity is ‘pocketed’ and shows a central depression or umbilicus.
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