The umbilical cord is the tube that connects an unborn baby to its mother, through which it receives oxygen and food.
2.
See cut sb's umbilical cord
umbilical cord in British English
noun
1.
the long flexible tubelike structure connecting a fetus with the placenta: it provides a means of metabolic interchange with the mother
2.
any flexible cord, tube, or cable used to transfer information, power, oxygen, etc, as between an astronaut walking in space and his or her spacecraft or a deep-sea diver and his or her craft
umbilical cord in American English
1.
a tough, cordlike structure connecting the navel of a fetus to the placenta and serving to supply nourishment to, and remove waste from, the fetus
2. US
umbilical noun
Examples of 'umbilical cord' in a sentence
umbilical cord
We need to cut the umbilical cord between getting pregnant and getting a council flat.
The Sun (2009)
There were other women around who cut the umbilical cord.
The Sun (2013)
Radio control was substituted for the umbilical cord cable which could become entangled.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The umbilical cord is now cut.
Pantano, James A. (MD) Living with Angina (1991)
Families have begun to send messages in green capsules down the long umbilical cords into the chamber where the miners are sheltering.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
They cut your umbilical cord, signed your passport photograph and came to your funeral.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It's like an umbilical cord being cut.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
A gap year really was a chance to cut the umbilical cord and go it alone.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It is difficult to say an umbilical cord nine miles long can be seen as part of a parent school and not as a new school.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The fox cub was still attached to its umbilical cord and placenta when it was spotted in a garden and brought into the centre by the homeowner.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
My husband says I have the longest umbilical cord in the world.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Recently, after one birth, they cut the umbilical cord with a razor.