The navel; the center.
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1. The navel; the center.
1. Pertaining to the navel; as umbilical vessels; umbilical region.
2. Umbilical points, in mathematics, the same as foci.
3. Umbilical vessels, in vegetables, are the small vessels which pass from the heart of the seed into the side seed-lobes, and are supposed to imbibe the saccharine, farinaceous or oily matter which is to support the new vegetable in its germination and infant growth.
2. Pertaining to the center; central.
UMBIL'ICATE ,
Alt. of Umbilicated
1. Depressed in the middle, like a navel, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus; as, an umbilicated smallpox vesicle.
2. Supported by a stalk at the central point.
A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated.
1. 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.
2. An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
3. The hilum.
4. A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
7. 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.
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