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Navel
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(O. Eng. nafela, a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Nobel, Swed. nafvel; the Sanskrit is nabhila; the English root is also seen in "nave," the hub of a wheel), in anatomy, the umbilicus (Gr. bi aXos), the depression in the abdomen which indicates the point through which the embryo mammal obtained nourishment from its mother (see ANATOMY: section Superficial and Artistic).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Navel'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/n/navel.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Navel'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/n/navel.html. 1910.
