umbilical cord (plural umbilical cords)
- (anatomy) The flexible structure connecting a foetus with the placenta; it transports nourishment to the foetus and removes waste.
- (aerospace) The line that supplies an astronaut with oxygen and communications when outside a spacecraft.
- (aerospace) Any of the various lines connecting a rocket to its launch pad before liftoff.
- (figurative, including) An overdependence on, or overattachment to, one's parents or guardians.
2024 February 7, Andrew McNaughton, “HS2: a truncated route cuts off city lifelines”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 47:Remember the eastern leg of HS2 being lopped back to the East Midlands? To this Yorkshireman, this was a tragedy. It removed the umbilical cord designed to connect and bind together the modern advanced manufacturing corridor of England (West Midlands-East Midlands-the reborn Sheffield-Leeds-Teesside-Tyneside), helping it to be capable of competing internationally through the synergy of skills and skilled people.
cord between foetus and placenta
- Akan: egyaade
- Arabic: حَبْل سُرِّيّ m (ḥabl surriyy)
- Armenian: պորտալար (hy) (portalar)
- Asturian: llibradura f
- Azerbaijani: göbək ciyəsi, göbəkbağı
- Bashkir: кендек бауы (kendek bawı), кендек (kendek)
- Belarusian: пупаві́на f (pupavína)
- Breton: funig ar begel m, kordenn ar begel m
- Bulgarian: пъ́пна връв f (pǎ́pna vrǎv)
- Burmese: ချက်ကြိုး (my) (hkyakkrui:)
- Catalan: cordó umbilical m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 臍帶/脐带 (ci4 daai3-2)
- Hakka: 臍帶/脐带 (chhì-tai)
- Hokkien: 臍帶/脐带 (châi-tòa)
- Mandarin: 臍帶/脐带 (zh) (qídaì)
- Classical Nahuatl: xīcmecayōtl
- Czech: pupeční šňůra f
- Danish: navlestreng (da) c
- Dutch: navelstreng (nl) m, navelsnoer f
- Egyptian: (ẖpꜣ), (npꜣw)
- Erzya: почопикс (počopiks)
- Estonian: nabanöör
- Finnish: napanuora (fi)
- French: cordon ombilical (fr) m
- Galician: cordón umbilical (gl) m, cadillo m
- Georgian: ჭიპლარი (č̣iṗlari)
- German: Nabelschnur (de) f
- Greek: ομφάλιος λωρός m (omfálios lorós)
- Hebrew: חֶבֶל הַטַבּוּר m
- Hindi: नाभिरज्जु m (nābhirajju)
- Hungarian: köldökzsinór (hu)
- Ido: umbilikala kordono
- Indonesian: tali pusat (id)
- Ingrian: napanoora
- Irish: srincne f, caolán imleacáin m, caol imleacáin m, sreang imleacáin f
- Italian: cordone ombelicale m
- Japanese: 臍帯 (ja) (さいたい, saitai), 臍の緒 (ja) (へそのお, heso no o)
- Kabuverdianu: unbigu
- Kannada: ಹೊಕ್ಕುಳಬಳ್ಳಿ (hokkuḷabaḷḷi)
- Kazakh: кіндікбау (kındıkbau)
- Khmer: ទងផ្ចិត (km) (tɔɔng phcət)
- Korean: 탯줄 (taetjul), 제대(臍帶) (ko) (jedae) (less common)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: navkebendik m
- Kyrgyz: киндик (ky) (kindik)
- Lao: ສາຍບື (lo) (sāi bư̄), ສາຍສະບື (sāi sa bư̄)
- Latin: nervus umbilicaris m
- Latvian: nabassaite f
- Lithuanian: virkštelė f
- Macedonian: папочна врвца f (papočna vrvca)
- Malayalam: പൊക്കിൾക്കൊടി (pokkiḷkkoṭi)
- Maori: tāngaengae, iho, uho, rauru (the end connecting to the placenta), pito (the end connecting to the foetus), kaha (mi)
- Marathi: नाळ f (nāḷ)
- Norwegian: navlestreng m
- Persian: بند ناف (fa) (band-e nâf)
- Polish: pępowina (pl) f
- Portuguese: cordão umbilical (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਨਾੜੂ m (nāṛū)
- Russian: пупови́на (ru) f (pupovína)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пупчана врпца f
- Roman: pupčana vrpca (sh) f
- Slovak: pupočná šnúra f
- Slovene: popkovnica (sl) f, popkovina (sl) f
- Southern Altai: киндик (kindik)
- Spanish: cuerda umbilical f
- Swahili: kitovu (sw)
- Swedish: navelsträng (sv) c
- Tagalog: talimpusod
- Tajik: наи ноф (na-yi nof)
- Tamil: தொப்புள்கொடி (toppuḷkoṭi)
- Telugu: బొడ్డు తాడు (boḍḍu tāḍu)
- Thai: สายสะดือ (sǎai-sà-dʉʉ)
- Tooro: orulera class 11
- Turkish: göbek bağı (tr)
- Ukrainian: пупови́на f (pupovýna)
- Uzbek: kindik ichakchasi
- Vietnamese: cuống nhau, dây rốn, cuống rốn
- Welsh: llinyn bogail m
- Yoruba: ìwọ́
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line connecting an astronaut to the spacecraft during spacewalk
any line connecting a rocket to its launch pad