umbilication

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word umbilication. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word umbilication, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say umbilication in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word umbilication you have here. The definition of the word umbilication will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofumbilication, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

From Latin umbilicatus. By surface analysis, umbilic- +‎ -ation.

Noun

umbilication (plural umbilications)

  1. A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the centre of a rounded body.
    the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle

See also

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for umbilication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)