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UMBILICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does umbilical mean?
• UMBILICAL (noun)
The noun UMBILICAL has 1 sense:
1. membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta
Familiarity information: UMBILICAL used as a noun is very rare.
• UMBILICAL (adjective)
The adjective UMBILICAL has 1 sense:
1. relating to or resembling the umbilicus
Familiarity information: UMBILICAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
umbilical; umbilical cord
Hypernyms ("umbilical" is a kind of...):
canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)
funiculus (any of several body structure resembling a cord)
fetal membrane (any membrane that functions for the protection or nourishment or respiration or excretion of a developing fetus)
Meronyms (parts of "umbilical"):
umbilical vein; vena umbilicalis (a vein in the umbilical cord; returns nutrient blood from the placenta to the fetus)
Holonyms ("umbilical" is a part of...):
conceptus; embryo; fertilized egg (an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life)
fetus; foetus (an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or resembling the umbilicus
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
umbilical cord
Pertainym:
umbilicus (a scar where the umbilical cord was attached)
Derivation:
umbilicus (a scar where the umbilical cord was attached)
Context examples
An acute inflammation of the umbilical cord.
(Funisitis, NCI Thesaurus)
Initial clinical signs include omphalitis and delayed separation of the umbilical cord.
(Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency Type 1, NCI Thesaurus)
An umbilical cord that has become looped around the fetus's neck from movement in utero.
(Nuchal Cord, NCI Thesaurus)
The lowest central region of the abdomen, below the umbilical region and between the two iliac regions.
(Hypogastric Region, NCI Thesaurus)
A vein occurring during embryonic development that is the continuation of the left umbilical vein that drains into the inferior vena cava.
(Ductus Venosus, NCI Thesaurus)
An umbilical cord blood product that has been expanded ex vivo and can be used during single umbilical cord blood transplantation.
(Expanded Umbilical Cord Blood Product HSC835, NCI Thesaurus)
The device consists of a semi-permeable membrane between two tiny chambers, one filled with maternal cells derived from a delivered placenta and the other filled with fetal cells derived from an umbilical cord.
(Researchers design placenta-on-a-chip to better understand pregnancy, NIH)
An umbilical cyst that arises from allantoic tissue that did not regress during gestational development.
(Allantoic Cyst, NCI Thesaurus)
A proprietary system for recovery of stem-cell rich fractions from human umbilical cord blood and volume reduction of blood components.
(AXP AutoXpress Platform, NCI Thesaurus)
They collected umbilical cord blood from 996 births and measured the amount of acetaminophen and two of its byproducts in each sample.
(Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism, National Institutes of Health)
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