parumbilical

English

Etymology

Adjective

parumbilical (not comparable)

(anatomy) Near the umbilicus; applied especially to one or more small veins which, in human beings, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “parumbilical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)