| 单词 | umbilicus |
| 释义 | umbilicus (once / 34459 pages) n Your umbilicus is your bellybutton. It's the place on your stomach where your umbilical cord was attached before you were born. Just call it a bellybutton or navel unless you're a fancy medical writer. Umbilicus is the official anatomical term for your navel or bellybutton. Most people don't give much thought to their umbilicus, which is really a scar marking the spot where a cord once connected to your source of nutrients when you were a fetus in your mother's body. After babies are born, this cord is cut, and the result is an umbilicus. In Latin, the word means both "navel" and "the center." WORD FAMILYumbilicus: umbilici USAGE EXAMPLESThe surgeons began by making incisions above the umbilicus and beneath the left and right sides of the rib cage. The New Yorker(Sep 19, 2016) His abstract depiction of a human in Reclining Figure: Umbilicus was purchased by an anonymous buyer at a London auction on Wednesday evening. BBC(Nov 25, 2015) In the beginning our love is our umbilicus, our heartbeat, our body, and then our arms, our kiss, our breast. Time(Jun 09, 2015) n a scar where the umbilical cord was attached Syn|Hyper belly button, bellybutton, navel, omphalos, omphalus point the precise location of something; a spatially limited location |
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