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parumbilical

parumbilical adjective: near, or connected to the navel (predominantly referring the small veins which, in human beings, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen).

Adjective

parumbilical (not comparable)

  1. Near, or connected to the navel (predominantly referring the small veins which, in human beings, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen).

Origin of parumbilical

From para- + umbilical.

Words formed from parumbilical

  • parumbilical vein

Questions about parumbilical

What does parumbilical mean?
Parumbilical means near, or connected to the navel (predominantly referring the small veins which, in human beings, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen).
What part of speech is parumbilical?
Parumbilical is an adjective.

Words near parumbilical in the dictionary

  1. parulid
  2. parulides
  3. parulids
  4. parulis
  5. Parulog
  6. parumbilical
  7. paruppu
  8. parure
  9. parures
  10. paruresis
  11. paruretic

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