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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