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omphalo-|ɒmfələʊ|
before a vowel omphal-, combining form of Gr. ὀµϕαλός navel, boss, hub. omphaˈlectomy [Gr. ἐκτοµή a cutting out], excision of the navel. omphaˈlitis [-itis], inflammation of the umbilicus. ˈomphaloˌcele |-siːl| [Gr. κήλη tumour, hernia], umbilical hernia. ˈomphaloˌmancy [Gr. µαντεία divination], divination, by the number of knots on the umbilical cord at birth, of the number of future children of the mother. ˌomphalo-mesaˈraic (erron. -meseraic) a. [mesaraic] = omphalo-mesenteric (Mivart, 1872). ˌomphaloˈpsychic |-ˈpsaɪkɪk| a., ˌomphaˈlopsychite [Gr. ψυχή soul], one of a sect of quietists who practised gazing at the navel as a means of inducing hypnotic reverie. † omphaˈlopter [Gr. ὀπτήρ one who looks or spies], a double-convex lens (obs. rare—0); so † omphaˈloptic [optic] n. = prec.; a., of the form or structure of a double-convex lens. omphaˈloscopy [Gr. -σκοπία], contemplation of the navel. omphaˈlotomy [Gr. -τοµια cutting], the operation of dividing the umbilical cord.
1892Syd. Soc. Lex., *Omphalectomy, excision of the umbilicus. 1894Brit. Med. Jrnl. Epit. 3 Feb. 18/1.
1876Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) 722/2 *Omphalitis. 1897Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. IX. 208 Of the remaining cases..one..was due to pyæmia following omphalitis in the newly-born. 1974Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. ii. xlv. 22/1 The appearance [in the newborn] of non-specific signs of infection, whether or not there is liver enlargement, jaundice or evidence of omphalitis, is always an indication for culture of the umbilicus and the blood.
1706Phillips, *Omphalocele, or Hernia Umbilicalis. 1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 710/1 Affected with omphalocele.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 165 *Omphelomancy, [divining] by the navell. 1892Syd. Soc. Lex.
189219th Cent. Jan. 24 The *Omphalopsychics, with whom hypnotic reverie is obtained by steadily gazing at the umbilicus.
1882‘Basil’ Love the Debt xliii, Bob has become an *Omphalopsychyte. Those thrice accursed cartoons had brought on Stomach on the brain.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., *Omphalopter, or *Omphaloptic, in optics, a glass that is convex on both sides, popularly called a convex lens. 1819H. Busk Dessert 457 The omphaloptic stud.
1931T. H. Pear Voice & Personality iv. 35 The psychologist, unless mental *omphaloscopy contents him, must go and fetch his material. 1960Times 30 Nov. 7/2 In particular he made fun of ‘omphaloscopy’—gazing at the navel.
1828–32Webster, *Omphalotomy. 1857in Mayne Expos. Lex.
Add: ˌomphaloˈskepsis [Gr. σκέψις inquiry] = omphaloscopy above.
1925A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves v. iv. 366 The flesh dies... And there's an end of your *omphaloskepsis. 1983Verbatim Summer 23/1 Presumably, one arrives at game theory through omphaloskepsis.
hence ˌomphaloˈskeptic, one who engages in omphaloskepsis.
c1915A. Huxley Let. (1969) 78 You must admit that no *omphaloskeptic, nay, not Plotinus, could have so utterly realized the Infinite as at moments one did to night.
ˌomphaloˈskeptical a.
1978Maledicta 1977 I. 268 Please continue your piperitious, planiloquent polemics against those *omphaloskeptical, onychophagic, uxoravalent, philalethic..acritochromatic, and tragomaschaliac pseudoacademicians. 1988National Rev. (U.S.) 30 Sept. 56/3 Everyone from Borromini to Wright..has had his convoluted theosophical and omphaloskeptical theories and convictions. |