um·bil·i·cal cord
noun/ʌmˈbɪlɪkl kɔːd/
/ʌmˈbɪlɪkl kɔːrd/
- a long piece of tissue that connects a baby to its mother before it is born and is cut at the moment of birth
脐带 WordfinderTopics Life stagesc2- birth
- breech birth
- caesarean section
- contraction
- deliver
- induce
- labour
- midwife
- obstetrics
- umbilical cord
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + umbilical cord- clamp
- cut
- tie
- …
- be twisted around somebody’s neck
- be wound around somebody’s neck