UMBILICAL CORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does umbilical cord mean? 

• UMBILICAL CORD (noun)
  The noun UMBILICAL CORD has 1 sense:

1. membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta

  Familiarity information: UMBILICAL CORD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UMBILICAL CORD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

umbilical; umbilical cord

Hypernyms ("umbilical cord" 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 cord"):

umbilical vein; vena umbilicalis (a vein in the umbilical cord; returns nutrient blood from the placenta to the fetus)

Holonyms ("umbilical cord" 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)

 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)

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)

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)

An inflammatory process involving the chorion, its fetal blood vessels, the umbilical cord, and the amnion by extension of the inflammation, as the amnion itself has no blood supply.

(Chorioamnionitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An umbilical cord that has become looped around the fetus's neck from movement in utero.

(Nuchal Cord, 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)

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)

A gelatinous type of connective tissue that is found in the umbilical cord.

(Mucous Connective Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

The retrieval of blood sample from the umbilical cord while the fetus is in utero.

(Intrauterine Cordocentesis, NCI Thesaurus)