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umbilical artery

umbilical artery noun: a paired blood vessel in the fetus that carries deoxygenated nutrient-poor blood from the fetus to the placenta by means of the umbilical cord.

Noun

umbilical artery (plural umbilical arteries)

  1. A paired blood vessel in the fetus that carries deoxygenated nutrient-poor blood from the fetus to the placenta by means of the umbilical cord.

umbilical artery meaning in Tamil

umbilical artery in Tamil

கொப்பூழ் நாளம்

Forms of umbilical artery

pluralumbilical arteries

Questions about umbilical artery

What does umbilical artery mean?
Umbilical artery means a paired blood vessel in the fetus that carries deoxygenated nutrient-poor blood from the fetus to the placenta by means of the umbilical cord.
What is umbilical artery in Tamil?
Umbilical artery in Tamil is கொப்பூழ் நாளம். See Umbilical artery meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is umbilical artery?
Umbilical artery is a noun.
What is the plural of umbilical artery?
The plural of umbilical artery is umbilical arteries.

Words near umbilical artery in the dictionary

  1. umbilectomy
  2. umbilic
  3. umbilic-
  4. umbilical
  5. umbilical arteries
  6. umbilical artery
  7. umbilical cord
  8. umbilical cord cuttings
  9. umbilical cords
  10. umbilical hernia
  11. umbilical hernias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: umbilical artery (page history and authors); umbilical artery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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