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belly button

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navel, umbilicus, belly button, omphalodium - The navel is also the umbilicus, belly button, or omphalodium; navel and umbilicus share the same Indo-European root.
See also related terms for navel.
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Noun1.belly button - a scar where the umbilical cord was attachedbelly button - a scar where the umbilical cord was attached; "you were not supposed to show your navel on television"; "they argued whether or not Adam had a navel"; "she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton"
bellybutton, navel, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus
abdomen, belly, stomach, venter - the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
point - the precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
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belly button → سُرَّة البطن pupek navle Bauchnabel αφαλός ombligo napa nombril pupak ombelico おへそ 배꼽 navel navle pępek umbigo пупок navel สะดือ göbek rốn 肚脐
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It''s when we feel deficient in the belly button department, either because ours is too small, too big or even non-existent, that our navel-gazing turns to neurosis.
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Byline: ANI Washington, Sep 15 (ANI): Using a pioneering technology, surgeons at The Methodist Hospital in Houston are removing gall bladders through a single incision in the belly button to prevent scarring for patients with gall stones.
Removing gall bladders through belly button prevents scarring by Asian News International
Haris Rashid, Consultant Laparoscopic Surgeon at the Hospital performed the surgery, Scarless surgery is a latest revolutionary technique known as single incision laparoscopic key-hole surgery, which allows for minimally invasive surgical access to internal organs through a single incision in the belly button that leaves no visible traces of a scar, Dr.
First-ever scarless surgery in Pakistan performed at ZHU by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan)
 
 
 
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