(n.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.
(n.) The central part or point of anything; the middle.
(n.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cryptoxanthin esters varied from 5 to 10% of the total carotenoids in Valencia orange juice concentrates and from 10 to 15% of the total carotenoids in Navel orange juice concentrates.
(2) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.
(3) The cut of the skin makes two flaps suppressing the navel which is generally salient.
(4) Similarly, devices used in the cutting of the umbilical cord and placenta were not properly sterilized and potentially dangerous substances were applied at the navel after cutting the umbilical cord or placenta.
(5) A place to study your navel, if you can still locate it.
(6) The simian and human Navel strains comprised a single serogroup, distinct from the established Mycoplasma and Acholeplasma species of the class Mollicutes.
(7) Retropneumooperitoneum following the increasingly popular method of intermittent respiration by above atmospheric pressure respiration of the newborn is now more frequently observed, as is necrosis of the wall of the bladder by instillation of medication and catheters in the arteries of the navel.
(8) Revealed: how developers exploit flawed planning system to minimise affordable housing Read more The furore over the opening of the cafe in late 2014 exemplified the problem with hipster-hating: that it is often little more than middle-class navel-gazing.
(9) Incidentally, I'm aware this is Olympic-level navel gazing, but you're a human being with free will who can stop reading any time.
(10) An increased incidence of lesions of the navel, hocks, and nares was observed, but regression analyses showed them to be relatively unimportant in the determination of body weights.
(11) His torso was cut open, gashed deep to the navel, and the index finger of his right hand torn off.
(12) The authors describe an umbilical anomaly marked by confluent erythematous and crusted plaques, spreading beyond the navel limits and histologically regarded as a choristia that is to say a displacement of intestinal tissue within the epidermis.
(13) During the course of observation, navel-like lesions developed in one of the other 27 eyes with other abnormalities and in 4 of the 17 eyes without any abnormality.
(14) A 16-month-old girl was referred to our clinic with a complaint of a cystic mass in the region of the navel.
(15) We will not take the Senate for granted in 2015, as perhaps sometimes we were tempted to do in 2014, but the important thing is not to navel gaze, it’s not to focus on ourselves; the important thing it to get on with the job of being a better government today than we were yesterday, being a better government tomorrow than we are today.” The defence minister, Kevin Andrews, dismissed suggestions Abbott should step down.
(16) In a 1969 European title defence at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome, against another Italian, Piero Tomasoni, Cooper suffered the lowest blow of his career – a dent seven inches below his navel in the aluminium cup covering his genitals.
(17) In spite of isopropanol being reported as a more efficient skin disinfectant than ethanol in several experimental models, no significant differences were seen in the frequency of navel colonization or in infection rates between the two treatment groups.
(18) People-watching, navel-gazing, and gentle meandering are all that are really required of you, and doing so little actually allows you to find yourself too.
(19) Yet this is rarely what mainstream politics is now about.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jon Glasby ‘It’s not about ivory towers or navel gazing, it’s about high quality research making a dfference to people’s lives’ Jon Glasby, professor and head of school designate, school of social policy, University of Birmingham, says: “With so much emphasis on Stem, social sciences can sometimes appear to take a back seat.
(20) Interestingly, in the conical incisor teeth, the enamel navel, septum and knot are absent, and Hox-8 has a symmetrical expression pattern.
Omphalic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infection in IHMs included omphalitis (2 infants), pneumonia (4), and sepsis with or without meningitis (6); INMs had cellulitis (1) and sepsis (1).
(2) During a 3-year study period, 33 neonates with omphalitis (with proven cultures) were encountered; aerobic and anaerobic cultures were obtained.
(3) Associated illnesses were present in 33 (54%) of the patients, the most common being pneumonia (9), bronchiolitis (7), meningitis (6), conjunctivitis (4), and omphalitis (4).
(4) Differential diagnosis of the omphalic stone includes the so called umbilical cholesteatoma, an accumulation of crumbling, fetid masses in the umbilicus, often times accompanied by seborrhea which may lead to abscess formation.
(5) It is suggested that this possibility should be considered in cases of resistant or recurrent omphalitis.
(6) The combination of the symptoms: delayed separation of the umbilical cord, omphalitis, impairment of wound-healing and extreme leukocytosis led to the diagnosis of LFA-1 (leukocyte function antigen)-deficiency, which was confirmed by monoclonal antibodies.
(7) At the time of diagnosis 4% of infants with EOD were asymptomatic, 54% had respiratory disease, 27% had sepsis without a focus, 15% had meningitis and 1% had urinary tract infection or omphalitis.
(8) The patients studied included 5 with pneumonia and 1 each with urinary tract infection, omphalitis, suspected meningitis, periproctal abscess and suspected septicemia.
(9) Nevertheless, only 1 (5%) minor complication was observed, in the form of omphalitis, which recovered in 2 days.
(10) The results obtained with a wide variety of infections (such as omphalitis, aspiration of amniotic fluid with broncho-pneumonia, phlegmons of the galea, and also pyelonephritis and mucoviscidosis with pulmonary complications) can be described as good, with a success rate of 85%.
(11) Twenty-five patients were diagnosed to have clinical illness--omphalitis (11), conjunctivitis (10), and pustulosis (5).
(12) The embryonic and foetal venous systems were filled with thin barium sulphate through the umbilical and omphalic veins.
(13) In this paper we report a review of the omphalic pathology that was admitted to our hospital from january 1973 through december 1990.
(14) Three isolates were from flocks with colisepticemia; one was from a flock with omphalitis; and one isolate was a non-pathogenic control.
(15) Six neonates are described with a gangrenous omphalitis, a disease not reported for many years.
(16) In decreasing order, the most common NIs were diarrhea, bacteremia and "suspect bacteremia", omphalitis, conjunctivitis and phlebitis associated with intravenous cannulas.
(17) Omphalitis was found more frequently in the early onset of septicemia, whereas, NEC and skin infection were found more in the late onset group.
(18) Congenital abnormalities were present in 12 out of 30 (40%) children with extrahepatic portal hypertension of unknown cause, but in only 2 out of 17 (12%) children with extnahepatic portal hypertension secondary to umbilical vein catheterization or omphalitis.
(19) The newborn presented with persistent high white blood cells after Proteus mirabilis omphalitis.
(20) Fifty-one had omphalitis, two infected circumcision wounds, and one each had meningitis, primary peritonitis, and conjunctivitis.