(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.
Umbilicus
Definition:
(n.) The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel.
(n.) An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
(n.) The hilum.
(n.) A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
(n.) Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
(n.) One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve.
(n.) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chemically isolated separate preparations of the non-aggregating protein-chondroitin-keratin sulphate (PCKS) fraction from the hyaline cartilage and hyaluronic acid (HUA) of the vitreous body and of the umbilicus were investigated by electron microscopy.
(2) Cultures were collected from the external ear, throat and umbilicus of all infants within 5 minutes of birth and at day 4 of life.
(3) Pneumoperitoneum may be indicated in the investigation of a bleeding Meckel's diverticulum, in the exclusion or confirmation of remnants of the omphalomesenteric duct, in chronically moist lesions of the umbilicus resistant to symptomatic treatment, in suspected cases of non-communicating urachal cysts which cannot be diagnosed by cystogram, and in the differential diagnosis of abdominal tumours related to the umbilical region.
(4) Faecal specimens were cultured daily for E. coli as were swabs from the rectum, groin, umbilicus, head, hands und mouth.
(5) The only consistent pattern distribution was that mff were recovered from all 10 hides at four sample sites along the ventral midline near the umbilicus.
(6) A lace used in obstetrics for ligation of umbilicus served as the tourniquet.
(7) Cultures were taken from the catheter tips and from the umbilicus at the time of withdrawal of the catheter.
(8) Plasma arginine vasopressin was more than 5 times greater 15 min following birth than immediately prior to clamping the umbilicus, and it fell progressively over the ensuing 2-5 h to levels not significantly different from before birth.
(9) The masculinisation of the external genitalia begins as early as day 47 by a rapid increase of the anogenital distance: on day 60, the penis opens under the umbilicus and the scrotum is well differentiated.
(10) A pooling of contrast medium (8 X 2.5 cm) under the umbilicus was detected by a fistelography from the umbilicus, and a low density mass was detected under the abdominal wall between the umbilicus and the dome of bladder on a CT scan.
(11) Complete removal of the skin and fat between the umbilicus and the pubis is always possible if the operating table is put in a proper position for closure.
(12) Two additional trocars were inserted at the level of the umbilicus at the anterior axillary lines.
(13) Massive hepatomegaly (below the umbilicus) was demonstrated in 18 patients.
(14) In one case a mass was localized to the bladder wall and immediate juxtavesical region; in the other case an advanced locally invasive lesion was seen to engulf and fisulize loops of small bowel and extend through the umbilicus.
(15) The defect concerned the lateral thoracoabdominal area, on both sides of the umbilicus, jointed with a fine linear communication, and have the classical butterfly wind-like shape.
(16) The ligamentum teres hepatis connects the umbilicus to the left lobe of the liver, and thus a hepatic lesion can spread through the ligament to the umbilicus and the anterior abdominal wall.
(17) The skin at the bottom of the umbilicus and the abdominal fascia under the umbilicus were excised round.
(18) Our procedure uses a single flap or brings two flaps together, to form a three-dimensional structure with a single or double suture line, so that the umbilicus will retain its depth over a long period of time.
(19) The umbilicus was not reconstructed because of the danger of recurrence.
(20) Necropsy of the fetuses revealed serogelatinous edema in the SC connective tissue of the ventral abdominal region (especially around the umbilicus), exaggerated amounts of serohemorrhagic fluid in the abdominal, pleural, and pericardial cavities, and hemorrhagic kidneys, with diminished consistency.