Definition of omphalos Omphalos

om•pha•los

We found 7 definitions of omphalos from 6 different sources.

What does omphalos mean?

Noun
omphalos - a scar where the umbilical cord was attached; "you were not supposed to show your navel on television"; "they argued whether or not Adam had a navel"; "she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton"
		navel, umbilicus, bellybutton, belly button, omphalus
		point sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil"
		abdomen, stomach, venter, belly the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis

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omphalos (Noun)
An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the " center" of the world.
omphalos (Noun)
The theological proposition that the world was created with certain indicia of a history which had not actually occurred such as the humans who had never been connected to umbilical cord s being created with navels.

omphalos
om′fal-us, n. the navel: a raised central point: a boss.—adj. Omphal′ic.—ns. Om′phalism, tendency to place the capital of a country at its geographical centre, or to increase the powers of central at the expense of local government; Omphalī′tis, inflammation of the umbilicus; Om′phalocele, umbilical hernia.—adj. Om′phaloid.—ns. Om′phalomancy, divination from the number of knots in the navel-string as to how many children the mother will bear; Omphalop′agus, a double monster united at the umbilicus; Omphalot′omy, cutting of the umbilical cord at birth. [Gr., the navel.]