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

About five crew members work with a crane operator to deploy it - once it is released from its harness, called the umbilical cord, it floats gracefully.

From BBC • Feb. 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

As I stood in the open hatch, gathering up all fifty feet of the umbilical line, I had a brief moment to rest and to look around.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins