The navel begins to close, the liver develops, the abdomen is yet partly open.
A monster double from the navel or breast downward (terata anadidyma) is, I think, one person.
Right down to and through the Middle Ages Jerusalem was regarded by all Christians as the centre of the world; sometimes as the navel of the earth; and sometimes as the middlemost point of heaven and earth.
Hence it is frequently indicated by poets and philosophers as the navel or centre of the house.
They met on the spot on which was erected the Temple of Delphi, and a stone in the centre of that temple was called the Navel of the World.
A sterile dressing about 4 inches square should be placed over the cut end of the cord at the baby's navel and should be held in place by wrapping a "bellyband" or folded diaper around the baby.
The two predominating varieties in California are the Washington Naveland the Valencia orange.
The California Navel orange is in the markets of the country from December 1st until about June 1st, when the California Valencia type takes its place and remains until the latter part of November.
From the outside part of one shoulder to the other is the same distance as from the top of the breast to the navel and this measure goes four times from the sole of the foot to the lower end of the nose.
The navel does not change its position to the male organ; and this shrinking arises because when a figure stands on one foot, that foot becomes the centre [of gravity] of the superimposed weight.
When a man kneels down with his hands folded on his breast the navel will mark half his height and likewise the points of the elbows.
From the middle of the navel to the base of the belly and beginning of the thighs, eleven parts, four minutes and a half.
Aeneas hurled his spear; it found the waist Of Anthalus' son, it pierced the navel through, Dragging the inwards with it.
The bright spear pierced him through From navel unto spine, and all his bowels Gushed out, and deadly Doom laid hold on him Even as he fell beside his horse's feet.
They cut his navel and blackened his eyelids with kohl[FN#66] and committed him to the nurses, naming him Agib.
When the umbilical cord is cut, some coin is placed over the navel for luck.
Meath itself, where this Kilair navel stood, was anciently the central one of the five divisions of Ireland and is called Media by Giraldus Cambrensis, .
Brahma was born of an egg and is also figured as springing from a lotus which, in turn rises from the navel of Vishnu or Narayana, "the Spirit moving on the waters.
The Finnic and Esthonian "Ukko is also called Taivahan Napanen, meaning the navel of the heaven and this is called the place of the pole star, the star at the top of the heavenly mountain" (vol.
The people who are said in the Rig-Veda to have first found fire by the help of Matarishoan, the fire-socket, and to have brought it to men, and are said to have placed it in the navel of the world .
Only our ancestral deity sitting upon the centre and navel of the earth will be trusted by us if we have any sense, in an affair of such magnitude.
He is the god who sits in the centre, on the navel of the earth, and he is the interpreter of religion to all mankind.
Out of my navel grew the Lotus called the Universe.
That Sukshma became pierced with Kala -- propelled Rajas, and small as it was, it came out of hisnavel region.
Chitta Thought Brahma The Triloki also appeared, Svar from the head, Bhuvar from the navel and Bhur from the feet.
At the end of the first Pararddha was Padma Kalpa, when the Loka-Padma (the lotus of Lokas) appeared at the navel of Hari.
Then crossing that Chakra of Vishnu, which is the navel of the Universe, he reaches the Mahar Loka with his pure Linga Sarira.
The chutka, a large silver ring worn by men on the big toe, is believed to attract to itself the ends of all the veins and ligaments from the navel downwards, and hold them all braced in their proper position, thus preventing rupture.
If the child's navelis swollen, the maternal uncle will go out for a walk and on his return place his turban over the navel.
I therefore presume that the navel had some important significance, all the more so as it is frequently decorated with a cross, and in one case even with a cross and the marks of a nail at each of the four ends of the cross.
It was looked upon as the central point of the whole earth, and was hence called “the navel of the earth.
She must cut the navel string herself, and in Davis Strait this is done by tying it through with deer sinews; in Iglulik (Lyon, p.
As long as any portion of the navel string remains a strip of sealskin is worn around the belly.
Part of the navel string is buried, and when the child is large enough to get into mischief they say, “He is hunting for his navel string.
In this bag is placed a piece of the navel string and sweet-smelling leaves, with which the bag is filled.
When the navelstring is cut, a small bag is made of deerskin, cut in the shape of a small tortoise, known as patkaśala.
The common seats of rupture are at the navel and in the groin.
Rupture at the navel is called umbilical hernia; that in the groin either inguinal or femoral, according to slight differences in site.
There is a protrusion at the navel which increases in size on coughing, straining, or crying.
The breeze raised her shift and showed her breasts and navel and a belly whiter than snow, each one of whose dimples contained an ounce of benzoin ointment.
Inflammation of the navel in calves occasionally occurs, causing redness, pain, and sudden swelling in the part affected.
Large and prominent milk-veins must extend from the navel back to the udder; the belly of a good milch cow should not be too deep and hanging.
The umbilical cord goes from its navelto the placenta.
The origin of the navel coincides with the complete closing of the external ventral wall.
With the formation of the internal navel and the closing of the alimentary canal is connected the formation of two cavities, which we call the capital and the pelvic sections of the visceral cavity.
The internal or intestinal navel is the definitive point of the closing of the gut wall, which puts an end to the open communication between the ventral cavity and the cavity of the yelk-sac (Figure 1.
The external navel in the skin is the definitive point of the closing of the ventral wall; this is visible in the developed body as a small depression.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "navel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: axis; center; core; heart; hub; kernel; marrow; middle; nave; navel; nucleus; pith; pivot; umbilicus
