Often used in medical or casual contexts to discuss the area where a baby was once connected to the mother.

Bodily Term

People have different sensitivities about their umbilicus; some may not like discussing or showing it.

Sensitivity Varies

In botany, the umbilicus can indicate health or disease in a plant, crucial for plant care.

Plant Health

The term is specialized; not all gardeners will use it, but it’s understood in botanical science.

Gardening Language

In architecture, 'umbilicus' is technical jargon, not typically used in casual conversation about spaces.

Not Common Speech

Understand it as a reference point for locating or describing other elements in space or a building plan.

Spatial Orientation

 there is no beginning to the appia currently because they don't know where the road actually started originally the umbilicus orbis that was once the beginning of all of rome's ancient roads

Umbilicus