umbilication

American  

[uhm-bil-i-key-shuhn] / ʌmˌbɪl ɪˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. a central navellike depression.

2. an umbilicate condition or formation.

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umbilication British  

/ ʌmˌbɪlɪˈkeɪʃən /

noun

1. biology anatomy a navel-like notch or depression, as in the centre of a vesicle

2. the condition of being umbilicated

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Etymology

Origin of umbilication

First recorded in 1870–75; umbilic(us) + -ation

Example Sentences

The lesions begin as red spots, discrete or in groups, rapidly exhibit vesiculation, and later umbilication; the contents become milky, dry to crusts, which fall off and leave small pit-like scars.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

The umbilication of the mature pock is doubtless due to the situation of such lesions at the orifices of the excretory ducts of the skin-glands.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Eventually, it too, as a result of the maceration and tension incidental to the complete filling of the pock with pus-elements, is ruptured or stretched, and the umbilication of the pustule disappears.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

This umbilication in the vesicular stage is somewhat peculiar.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The pustules show no disposition to umbilication, rupture or coalescence; drying in the course of several days or a week to yellowish or brownish crusts, which soon drop off, leaving no permanent trace.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman