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umbilical cord

noun
🔊/ʌmˈbɪlɪkl kɔːd/
🔊/ʌmˈbɪlɪkl kɔːrd/
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  1. 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
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    Topics Life stagesc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + umbilical cord
    • clamp
    • cut
    • tie
    • …
    umbilical cord + verb
    • be twisted around somebody’s neck
    • be wound around somebody’s neck
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