umbilical cord.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

This cord is a part of what is called the umbilical cord, and it is this that joins the embryo to the mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference

The growing fetus is connected with this vascular organ by means of a sort of cable, called the umbilical cord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.] Reference

The other side is attached to a structure called the umbilical cord, which connects the placenta to the baby (see Figure 4.4).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Andrew Garcia was nervous and overly attached to his guitar, as thought it were a kind of umbilical cord.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Politics] Reference

Her use of the word "umbilical" really implies that the camera was lying - not a view shared by most commentators on the film.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

"One feller said he was so hungry and so thin that his 'umbilical' button had stuck to his back bone (but he didn't say umbilical).".    From Wordnik.com.  [Grassroots Science] Reference

We never had an umbilical connection to our children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slouching Toward Fatherhood] Reference

This new umbilical line was absolutely necessary, though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serenity Shattered] Reference

In the distance, the highway snakes like an umbilical cord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breath] Reference

I'm considering the umbilical stem cell treatment in China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Offshore Stem Cell Clinics Sell Hope, Not Science] Reference

They can be found even in umbilical cords of newborn children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ken Blackwell: Delaware GOP Rumblings] Reference

Adult stem cells and umbilical cords are definitely the way to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Magazine] Reference

But perhaps the umbilical cord has finally been stretched too far.    From Wordnik.com.  [Married To The Mom] Reference

Lessons in aggression sometimes start as the umbilical cord is cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning To Walk Away] Reference

As Mahone lifted each one, Drake clamped and cut the umbilical cord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Seven] Reference

Or will the umbilical cord that connects the GOP and the Tea Party be cut?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Weller: Tea Party & Palin Caught by Surprise in Alaska] Reference

At the baby's birth, umbilical cord blood and a piece of placenta will be collected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tracking a New Generation] Reference

I first saw him a few hours after his birth in 1964, still attached to the umbilical cord.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey Through the Jungle] Reference

It's as if we had never been attached by a short umbilical cord, carrying her blood into mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm Ready To Follow My Father's Lead] Reference

Then his heart started to fail, so we put lines into his umbilical cord to pump in medications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aaron E. Carroll: It's the 'Life' in End-of-Life That Matters] Reference

We fashioned a provisionary umbilical cord out of rubber hose, horse hair, and lower intestines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiction with Teratoma Preserves] Reference

He also studied the feasibility of banking umbilical cord blood as a source of blood stem cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul R. McCurdy; Josephine Stafford; Sally A. Vogt] Reference

She accepted the pomegranate which looked to her like a red belly with its umbilical cord ripped off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persephone] Reference

Officials have described the bore hole? which is just 8cm wide? as an "umbilical cord" for the miners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four-month dig ahead to free trapped Chilean miners] Reference

We had the privilege of donating our last child's umbilical-cord blood to science for research and use.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

I cut the umbilical cord, which was collected to make medicine, then I had to put the child in the box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riding The Seoul Train] Reference

Whatever happens, the umbilical relationship between the United States and Israel may never be the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush Bashes Israel] Reference

A scab like a severed umbilical chord, a hefty nut sack, and an empty space that just didn't seem empty at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Months Before, Two Months After] Reference

The panel pointed to studies that have found 300 synthetic chemicals in the umbilical cord blood of newborn babies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stacy Malkan: Why We Made the Story of Cosmetics] Reference

He had a twinkle in his eye, and he smiled at me, and, for whatever reason, he wouldn't cut the final umbilical cord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice Of Ventura] Reference

The umbilical cord, wrapped tightly four times around the baby's neck and once around her arm, had cut off her blood supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Vast and Sudden Sadness] Reference

They helped complete the birth, cut the umbilical cord, and drove the couple to Lutheran General, according to the Sun-Times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped By Deadly Train Wreck, Woman Delivers Baby In Her Car] Reference

(There is also a pattern for an heirloom-quality "big bad baby blanket," which would go nicely with the "umbilical-cord hat.").    From Wordnik.com.  [ROCK-AND-ROLL KNITTERS] Reference

He had a small hole in his ear that looked like a piercing and could indicate a brain anomaly, and a hernia near his umbilical cord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gabriel’s Story] Reference

Today, with cell phones and instant messaging like umbilical cords, the whole dorm would riot if someone managed to cut the connection.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE LAYERED LIVES WE LEAD] Reference

The new rescue hole wi ll be drilled near the existing holes, which will be kept open as the supply and communications "umbilical cord.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chile Prepares for Long Rescue Effort] Reference

Mobile communication gives us an umbilical cord that can enhance our safety and our sense of security, unless we gab on it while driving.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL: THE WI-FI REVOLUTION] Reference