omphalic

She is the originator of the theory of omphalic museum classification or, in the vernacular, “How Museums are Like Belly Buttons,” a post she wrote for the website of the Center for the Future of Museums, of which she is a vice president.

There are passages in his music in which I detect the philosopher in omphalic meditation.

Saint-Saëns, with his symphonic poems, his Omphalic Roués, is a Gallic echo of Bach and Liszt—a Bach of the Boulevards.

Under it and in the centre is a square stone, planted upright and fancifully carved, to represent the omphalic region of the human frame.

Here, according to some Arabs, Adam lies, his head being at one end of one long wall, and his feet at another, whilst the dome covers his omphalic region.