vesicoumbilical
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to the urinary bladder and the umbilicus
Example Sentences
- "The bladder mucosa is discoloured and thickened, has numerous erosions and ulcerations and is covered with fibrin (from Braun et al. [ 11 ]) Immediately after umbilical cord rupture, the urachus retracts into the abdominal cavity toward the apex of the bladder, and its peritoneal covering gives rise to the vesicoumbilical ligament."
Etymology
From vesico- + umbilical.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: vesico
Synonyms
omphalovesical