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Definition of Omphalic
1. a. Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
Definition of Omphalic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Omphalic
1. pertaining to the navel [adj]
Medical Definition of Omphalic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Omphalic
Literary usage of Omphalic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Racial Anatomy of the Philippine Islanders: Introducing New Methods of by Robert Bennett Bean (1910)
"Divisions into hyper-, meso-, and hypo-omphalic would follow naturally for the
high, intermediate, and low umbilicus, and these might be termed ..."
2. The Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal (1876)
"Mackay's omphalic mustard plasters or leaflets consist of disks about the size
of a sixpence, attached to small sheets of ..."
3. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"Divisions into hyper-, meso-, and hypo-omphalic would follow naturally for the
high, .intermediate, and the low umbilicus. It is inexpedient at this time to ..."
4. A Treatise on Human Physiology by John Call Dalton (1882)
"At first, the circulation of the umbilical vesicle is more important than that
of the intestine; and the omphalic artery and vein appear accordingly as ..."
5. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1878)
"The first constitutes the axis of all future development of the siliceous structure.
The latter constitutes the omphalic chamber, which answers to the ..."