umbilical cord

English

Noun

umbilical cord (plural umbilical cords)

1. (anatomy) The flexible structure connecting a foetus with the placenta; it transports nourishment to the foetus and removes waste.
2. (aerospace) The line that supplies an astronaut with oxygen and communications when outside a spacecraft.
3. (aerospace) Any of the various lines connecting a rocket to its launch pad before liftoff.
4. (figurative) An overdependence on, or overattachment to, one's parents or guardians.

Synonyms

• (anatomical structure): navel-string/navel string

Derived terms

• cut the umbilical cord

Translations

cord between foetus and placenta

• Arabic: حَبْل سُرِّيّ m (ḥabl surriyy)
• Armenian: պորտալար (hy) (portalar)
• Azerbaijani: göbək ciyəsi
• Bashkir: кендек бауы (kendek bawı), кендек (kendek)
• Belarusian: пупаві́на f (pupavína)
• Bulgarian: пъ̀пна връв f (pǎ̀pna vrǎv)
• Burmese: ချက်ကြိုး (my) (hkyakkrui:)
• Catalan: cordó umbilical m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 臍帶／脐带 (ci⁴ daai^3-2), 脐带 (ci⁴ daai^3-2)

  Hakka: 臍帶／脐带, 脐带 (chhì-tai)

  Mandarin: 臍帶／脐带 (zh) (qídài), 脐带 (zh) (qídaì)

  Min Nan: 臍帶／脐带, 脐带 (châi-tòa)

• Classical Nahuatl: xīcmecayōtl
• Czech: pupeční šňůra f
• Danish: navlestreng (da) c
• Dutch: navelstreng (nl) m, navelsnoer f
• Egyptian: (ẖpꜣ)
• Erzya: почопикс (počopiks)
• Estonian: nabanöör
• Finnish: napanuora (fi)
• French: cordon ombilical (fr) m
• Galician: cordón umbilical 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)
• Irish: srincne f
• Italian: cordone ombelicale m
• Japanese: 臍帯 (さいたい, saitai), 臍の緒 (へそのお, heso no o)
• Kabuverdianu: unbigu
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• Kazakh: кіндікбау (kındıkbau)
• Khmer: ទងផ្ចិត (km) (tɔɔng phcət)
• Korean: 제대 (ko) (jedae) (臍帶), 탯줄 (taetjul)
• 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)
• Maori: tāngaengae, iho, uho, rauru (the end connecting to the placenta), pito (the end connecting to the foetus), kaha (mi)
• Norwegian: navlestreng m
• Persian: بند ناف (fa) (band-e nâf)
• Polish: pępowina (pl) f
• Portuguese: cordão umbilical (pt) m
• Russian: пупови́на (ru) f (pupovína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пупчана врпца f

  Roman: pupčana vrpca (sh) f

• Slovak: pupočná šnúra f
• Slovene: popkovnica f, popkovina (sl) f
• Spanish: cuerda umbilical f
• Swahili: kitovu (sw)
• Swedish: navelsträng (sv) c
• Tagalog: talimpusod
• Tajik: наи ноф (nayi nof)
• Thai: สายสะดือ (sǎai-sà-dʉʉ)
• Turkish: göbek bağı (tr)
• Ukrainian: пупови́на f (pupovýna)
• Uzbek: kindik ichakchasi
• Vietnamese: cuống nhau, dây rốn

line connecting an astronaut to the spacecraft during spacewalk

• Finnish: napanuora (fi)
• Hungarian: köldökzsinór (hu)
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• Swahili: kitovu (sw)

any line connecting a rocket to its launch pad

• Finnish: napanuora (fi)
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• Swahili: kitovu (sw)