"umbilicus" Definition

Definitions for the word "umbilicus" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The hilum.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
(pl. -ci or -cuses) navel. [latin]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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