umbilical

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The show pairs the painting with a Kiki Smith sculpture, created over five decades later, that portrays the papery form of a woman from the waist down, her fetus dangling by an umbilical cord.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Each child had detectable levels of CPF in their umbilical cord blood at birth and underwent brain imaging and behavioral assessments between the ages of 6 and 14.

From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2025

On the other hand, a 2020 study that measured acetaminophen in umbilical cord blood did find a dose-dependent association with autism.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2025

“That feeding tube kept me connected to my mother the way an umbilical cord does,” she writes in the book begun during her imprisonment.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

Then one day, three months after I was gone, the signals coming over my mother’s spiritual umbilical cord stopped.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides