What's the difference between umbilic and umbilicus?
Umbilic
Definition:
(n.) The navel; the center.
(n.) An umbilicus. See Umbilicus, 5 (b).
(a.) See Umbilical, 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
(3) In umbilical cord blood a higher level of lipoperoxide was observed in patients with toxemia of pregnancy than in normal pregnant women.
(4) Aplasia of the trachea associated with multiple congenital anomalies is described in a stillborn male foetus with single umbilical artery.
(5) An umbilical nodule may be an early or late sign of metastasis from an internal location.
(6) A neonate, with a postconceptual age of 29 weeks, suffered thrombosis of the aorta as a consequence of umbilical artery catheterisation.
(7) The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of uterine contractions during labor on both the uterine and the umbilical circulations.
(8) Detectable antibiotic levels were present in umbilical blood and amniotic fluid within 15 min of maternal administration.
(9) Twenty-three of 98 (24%) newborn infants undergoing umbilical artery catheterization were found to have thrombotic complication determined by aortography.
(10) Paired umbilical cord venous and maternal venous blood samples were obtained and plasma levels of protein C, protein S, antithrombin III, fibrinopeptide A, fibrinogen, plasminogen, and fibrinolytic inhibitory activity were measured.
(11) DNA of cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined in 131 placentae and 28 umbilical blood specimens by DNA-DNA hybridization.
(12) The Authors report the results of IgM and IgA assays in blood of the umbilical cord of 1694 newborns during the period from October 1973 to July 1974 after a rubella epidemic occurred in Piedmont.
(13) At operation a patent left umbilical artery was partially obstructing the distal left ureter.
(14) The levels of oestrogens and progesterone were greater (P less than 0.05) in the umbilical vein than umbilical artery, indicating the endocrine function of the placenta.
(15) We studied techniques to accurately quantify the adherence of L-[35S]methionine-labeled Candida albicans to human umbilical vein endothelial cells in a 96-well microtiter plate system while avoiding specific problems related to Candida coadherence and avid binding to plastic.
(16) In each rabbit, a single fetal sac was opened, the umbilical vessels were cannulated and the placenta was perfused in situ with buffered Krebs solution containing Dextran.
(17) C1-inhibitor (C1-inh) is synthesised and secreted by at least four cell types: hepatocytes, mononuclear phagocytes, fibroblasts and umbilical vein endothelial cells.
(18) The helical structure of the human umbilical cord has been studied on 528 full-term cords from normal deliveries, 18 cords from aborted and developmentally normal fetuses with a CR length of 1.2-19.5 cm, 10 cords from monozygotic twins.
(19) Atenolol concentration varied 3- to 6-fold between individuals, but there was no systematic difference between maternal and umbilical levels.
(20) This study suggests that restitution of amniotic fluid volume in human pregnancies complicated by severe oligohydramnios does not acutely alter the umbilical artery PI.
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.