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umbilical

[ US /əmˈbɪɫɪkəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ʌmbˈɪlɪkə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta
ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to or resembling the umbilicus
    umbilical cord

How To Use umbilical In A Sentence

  • A lantern is a hand-held torch which has its batteries enclosed in the main body, while the umbilical has a battery that is separate from the lamp-head but linked by an umbilical electrical wire.
  • He has never got round to cutting the umbilical link with his home city, here represented by the slurred abbreviation in the title.
  • The midwife cut and tied off the baby's umbilical cord.
  • A short umbilical cable rolled out with the rocket which was fired by electrical impulse, breaking the cord.
  • Umbilical hernias occur more often in premature infants and those of African American descent.
  • Objective To explore common causes of death in umbilical cord blood transplantation treating malignant and nonmalignant diseases in children.
  • A search for a suitable bone marrow or umbilical cord donor for Garrett is under way.
  • The umbilical flow velocity waveform of a normally growing fetus has high-velocity diastolic flow, while in cases of intrauterine growth restriction, the umbilical artery diastolic flow is diminished.
  • However, costal patterns and umbilical shape could vastly improve these capacities.
  • Blood then courses down through the descending aorta and comes back to the placenta where it gets oxygenated again by way of two umbilical arteries.
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