Umbilical
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Umbilical may refer to:
- Umbilical cableUmbilical cableAn umbilical cable or umbilical is a cable which supplies required consumables to an apparatus. It is named by analogy with an umbilical cord...
- Umbilical cordUmbilical cordIn placental mammals, the umbilical cord is the connecting cord from the developing embryo or fetus to the placenta...
- Umbilical fold
- Umbilical herniaUmbilical herniaCongenital umbilical hernia is a congenital malformation, common in infants of African descent. Among adults, it is three times more common in women than in men; among children, the ratio is roughly equal...
- Umbilical notch
- Umbilical vessels
- Umbilical arteryUmbilical arteryThe umbilical artery is a paired artery that is found in the abdominal and pelvic regions. In the fetus, it extends into the umbilical cord.-Umbilical arteries in the fetus:...
- Umbilical veinUmbilical veinThe umbilical vein is a vein present during fetal development that carries oxygenated blood from the placenta to the growing fetus.The blood pressure inside the umbilical vein is approximately 20 mmHg.-Development:...
- Umbilical artery
- Umbilical zone
- The Umbilical BrothersThe Umbilical Brothers-History:They met in 1988, at the University of Western Sydney in a jazz class, , where David swung around and broke Shane's nose...
, two Australian comedic performers, David and Shane - Umbilical pointUmbilical pointIn the differential geometry of surfaces in three dimensions, umbilics or umbilical points are points that are locally spherical. At such points both principal curvatures are equal, and every tangent vector is a principal direction....
, a locally spherical point on a mathematical surface. - Umbilical regionUmbilical regionThe umbilical region, in the anatomists' abdominal pelvic nine-region scheme, is the area surrounding the umbilicus . This region of the abdomen contains part of the stomach, the head of the pancreas, the duodenum, a section of the transverse colon and the lower aspects of the left and right kidney...