umbilication
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin umbilicatus. By surface analysis, umbilic- + -ation.
Noun edit
umbilication (plural umbilications)
- A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the centre of a rounded body.
- the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)