The flexible rope-like structure that connects a developing FETUS to the PLACENTA in mammals. The cord contains blood vessels which carry oxygen and nutrients from the mother to the fetus and waste products away from the fetus.
    

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Foetus, uterus and placenta: three figures demonstrating the nourishment of the foetus in utero. Line engraving, ca. 1791.

A foetus and placenta with umbilical cord. Engraving, 1686, the second, third, fifth and sixth figures after G. de Lairesse, 1685.

A red and black impression of a foetus and and umbilical cord within a womb incorporating a series of orange numbers and purple paint marks; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Fernando Arias, ca. 1995.

Notes of a complicated case of labour : with remarks on the postural treatment of prolapsus funis and the management of the third stage of labour / by Alexander R. Simpson.

Vita humana ex fune pendens : h. e., Disquisitio anatomico-physiologica de funiculo umbilicali human. eumque ligandi necessitate, cum famosae istius objectionis, cur in brutis, funiculo non ligato, nulla tamen superveniat haemorrhagia? tentata resolutione ... / author Johann Wilhelm Müller.

Remarks on the postural treatment of prolapse of the funis : with cases illustrative of its successful employment / J.G. Wilson.

Observationes chirurgico-obstetricio-anatomico-medicae : quas, annuente summo numine ... pro gradu doctoratus ... / eruditorum examini submittit Henricus van de Laar.

Umbilical cord

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Notes of a complicated case of labour : with remarks on the postural treatment of prolapsus funis and the management of the third stage of labour / by Alexander R. Simpson.

Vita humana ex fune pendens : h. e., Disquisitio anatomico-physiologica de funiculo umbilicali human. eumque ligandi necessitate, cum famosae istius objectionis, cur in brutis, funiculo non ligato, nulla tamen superveniat haemorrhagia? tentata resolutione ... / author Johann Wilhelm Müller.

Remarks on the postural treatment of prolapse of the funis : with cases illustrative of its successful employment / J.G. Wilson.

Observationes chirurgico-obstetricio-anatomico-medicae : quas, annuente summo numine ... pro gradu doctoratus ... / eruditorum examini submittit Henricus van de Laar.

Foetus, uterus and placenta: three figures demonstrating the nourishment of the foetus in utero. Line engraving, ca. 1791.