[
US
/əmˈbɪɫɪkəɫ/
]
[ UK /ʌmbˈɪlɪkəl/ ]
[ UK /ʌmbˈɪlɪkəl/ ]
NOUN
- membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta
ADJECTIVE
-
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.