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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
line connecting an astronaut to the spacecraft during spacewalk
any line connecting a rocket to its launch pad