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A hernia at the navel.

through which the nutrient vessels pass into the rhaphe or the chalaza; -- called also omphalodium.

Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have. Crabb.

Omphalomesenteric.

Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery; omphalomesaraic; as, the omphalomesenteric arteries and veins of a fetus.

A name of the Hesychasts, from their habit of gazing upon the navel.

An optical glass that is convex on both sides. [Obs.] Hutton.

The navel.

The operation of dividing the navel-string.

Broad-headed.

Having a head of flowers on a long peduncle, or footstalk.

The metencephalon.

The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain.

The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.

ront of the midbrain, including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary body; the diencephalon; the interbrain.

Mycose; -- so called because sometimes obtained from trehala.

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Divination by means of salt. [Spelt also halomancy.] Morin.

A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal.…

An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.