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

Early in their career an apicial depression can be seen, which later deepens into a characteristic umbilication.

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

Empty cells becoming confluent, vesicular by incurvation of the circular margin, forming a deep and round umbilication.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

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

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