How to Use umbilical in a Sentence

umbilical

adjective
  • Then the umbilical was cut and he was gone, taken to a nearby cart, with no word from the doctor.
    Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The doctor helped Jacee throughout the entire birth and even allowed her to cut the umbilical cord.
    Fox News, 8 June 2017
  • Our navels are formed at what used to be the umbilical attachment site.
    Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Time stilled when the baby emerged: a purplish, limp infant with the umbilical coiled around her neck.
    Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 27 June 2018
  • To our left, 5 miles distant, the other B-2 is connected to the umbilical of the second tanker.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
  • The boy was chilled and still had his umbilical cord attached, but otherwise was healthy, court records state.
    Bill Leukhardt, courant.com, 14 July 2017
  • Four days later came a video record of the descent—the umbilical slither of a cable and, at one end, the pop of the parachute, resplendent in red and white.
    Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 16 July 2021
  • Harris was in the delivery room when Marcus was born and cut the umbilical cord.
    Glenn E. Rice, kansascity.com, 15 May 2017
  • The filly has clumps of hair missing and an umbilical hernia as well.
    Kalin Kipling, sacbee, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Divers used suits with air hoses and umbilical lines that pumped warm water into the suits from the surface for about three hours, Mr. Harris said.
    Christine Hauser, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Wire rope connected to both halves of the cover and the razor was routed through a pulley on a crane at the top of the launch umbilical tower, then down a tube on its side.
    Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Now came Thomas Reed, 20 years old and trained as a commercial diver, descending by umbilical to the bay’s floor.
    Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • Bowen suffered an umbilical hernia as a result of trauma to her abdomen caused by the seat belt.
    Karen Kucher, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Bloated sows lie in grids of 84 metal pens to give birth, their piglets - some still trailing dried umbilical cords - squirming and sleeping next to them.
    Caitlin Dewey, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
  • Their dorsal fins were not yet erect, their umbilical opening had not closed, and both heads had hair on the rostrums, or beaks—all tell-tale features of newborns.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 15 June 2017
  • Divers typically wear a compressed-air cylinder on their back as a backup source of air in case the umbilical line fails.
    John Ismay, New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • With the guidance of an emergency operator, Iman used a pair of red headphones to tie the umbilical cord.
    Gina Mei, Cosmopolitan, 29 Aug. 2016
  • The baby slipped out, the umbilical cord was cut, and the infant was handed to two pediatricians.
    Adam Wolfberg, The Atlantic, 26 May 2017
  • Schulkers agreed to a second urine test and was told her baby's umbilical cord would also be tested.
    Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 5 May 2017
  • In addition, antibodies were found in the blood in the umbilical cords that connect infants to mothers as well as in breast milk.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
  • The test didn’t go 100% smoothly, with a new hydrogen leak detected on an umbilical running from the mobile launcher to the core stage.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2022
  • Atogho returned five minutes later to cut the umbilical cord.
    Daniel Chang, miamiherald, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The first is the presence of BTs in the area, indicated by a rainstorm and the frantic pinging of an antenna connected to your umbilical BB.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The system also does not require tubing be placed in the placenta and this minimizes umbilical spasms that can take place when the baby is born, Flake said.
    Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
  • An umbilical cord of shiny metal tubing fed into its spine.
    Nick Glass, CNN, 12 May 2017
  • The gilded sneakers share an umbilical tangle of crimson shoe laces.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Officials are not sure why the umbilical duct on the launch pad disconnected Wednesday, but brisk winds on Florida's Space Coast could be the culprit.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2020
  • But doctors told her that the fetus’s brain matter was leaking into the umbilical sac, which could cause sepsis and lead to critical illness or even death.
    New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The umbilical chord and placenta do not directly connect to the woman.
    Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022
  • So, some new parents (ahem) may not realize that newborns can't really wear tight onesies until their umbilical cords fall off.
    Marisa Lascala and Lori Bergamotto, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2023

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