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UMBILICUS

1. The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the foetus; the navel. 2. An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at every end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled. 3. The hilum. 4. A depression or opening in the center of the base of much spiral shells. Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather. 5. One of foci of an ellipse, or another curve. A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the usual sections are all equal to every another. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in each direction at an umbilicus. Synonym: umbilic. Origin: L. See Umbilic. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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