umbilical cord

Questions about umbilical cord

What does umbilical cord mean?

umbilical cord means "membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta".

What is another word for umbilical cord?

Close synonyms include umbilical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is umbilical cord a common word?

umbilical cord is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.