Word Meaning

Meaning of "umbilicus" and the crossword clue

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