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Umbilicus

noun
(pl. umbilici, umbilicuses)
1.
A scar where the umbilical cord was attached.  Synonyms: belly button, bellybutton, navel, omphalos, omphalus.  "They argued whether or not Adam had a navel" , "She had a tattoo just above her bellybutton"



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"Umbilicus" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the restored Triumphal Arch of Titus erected to commemorate the defeat of the Jews A.D. 70, also in the beautiful Arch to Severus. At the end of the Rostra, or Orators' Tribune was the Umbilicus Urbis Romae, or ideal center of Rome and the Roman Empire. True it was that all roads led to Rome. Leo and Lucille visited by moonlight the ruins of the great Colosseum, and the lights and shadows in the huge old stone and brick amphitheater, ...
— The Harris-Ingram Experiment • Charles E. Bolton

... the moist papule (also called mucous patch, flat condyloma) is not uncommon where opposing surfaces and natural folds of skin are subjected to more or less contact, as about the anus, the scroto-femoral regions, umbilicus, axillae and beneath the mammae. The dry, flat papules gradually become moist and covered with a grayish, sticky, mucoid secretion; several may coalesce and form large, flat patches. They may so remain, or they may become hypertrophic, warty or papillomatous, ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon



Words linked to "Umbilicus" :   stomach, omphalos, point, abdomen, omphalus, belly, vesicula umbilicus, venter, umbilical



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