Definition of umbilicus Umbilicus

um•bil•i•cus

We found 18 definitions of umbilicus from 6 different sources.

What does umbilicus mean?

Noun
umbilicus - 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, bellybutton, belly button, omphalos, 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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umbilicus (Noun)
navel.
umbilicus (Noun)
hilum.
umbilicus (Noun)
A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
umbilicus (Noun)
Either of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
umbilicus (Noun)
One of the foci of an ellipse or other curve.
umbilicus (Noun)
A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other.
umbilicus (Noun)
An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.

umbilicus (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.
umbilicus (n.)
An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
umbilicus (n.)
The hilum.
umbilicus (n.)
A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
umbilicus (n.)
Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
umbilicus (n.)
One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve.
umbilicus (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.

The umbilicus (also called navel or bellybutton) is the part of the body of mammals that is left after a baby loses its umbilical cord. The umbilicus of humans is in the middle of the abdomen.