umbilical

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relating to the umbilical cord (= the long tube that connects a baby before it is born to its mother's placenta):

Foetal blood drains towards the placenta through the umbilical arteries.

Resistance to placental flow was created by compression of both umbilical veins.

relating to the area around the centre of the abdomen (= the lower part of the body):

Hernias may occur in the groin area or around the umbilical area.

Pain in lesions of the small intestine are localized, always in the umbilical region.

If one person or thing has an umbilical connection with another, it is very closely connected with it and often depends on it:

He was associated with the party's almost umbilical links with the trade union movement.

Entire careers of country artists have been founded on their music's umbilical connection to poor childhoods, picking cotton and hard drinking.

an umbilical cord (= the long tube that connects a baby before it is born to its mother's placenta):

Premature clamping of the umbilical should be avoided as it can result in brain damage.

a tube that carries something important, for example a tube carrying air to a diver under the sea:

All divers working in the North Sea use umbilicals.

The company makes umbilicals, tubes that protect and carry cables.