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your first contract with the world, signed in blood and severed at hello
means Relating to the navel or the cord that connects a fetus to the placenta, or by extension any vital connecting link.
from From Latin umbilicus, meaning 'navel,' which is a cousin of the Latin umbo, the boss or central knob on a shield. The same family reaches back to a Proto-Indo-European root that also gave English 'navel' and Greek omphalos — the sacred navel-stone the Greeks placed at Delphi to mark the center of the world. So the word for your belly button shares ancestry with the ancients' idea of the world's own midpoint.
- belly button
- the scar left where the cord once fed you
- three vessels
- two arteries, one vein, all working overtime
- no nerves
- cutting it hurts neither baby nor mother
- space tethers
- astronaut lifelines borrow the same name
- stem cells
- cord blood banked for future medical miracles
umbilical cord blood banking — stem cells harvested from newborn cord blood used in treating leukemia and other blood disorders since 1988
space station umbilical — life support cable connecting spacewalking astronauts to iss, carrying oxygen, water, and communications