That second forced migration was known as the domestic, or internal, slave trade: âIn the seven decades between the ratification of the Constitution [in 1787] and the Civil War [1861],â the historian Walter Johnson tells us in his book Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market, âapproximately one million enslaved people were relocated ...
plural umbilical cords. Learner's definition of UMBILICAL CORD. [count] : a long, narrow tube that connects an unborn baby to the placenta of its mother â sometimes used figuratively. The time has come to cut/sever the umbilical cord that keeps us dependent on foreign aid.
[noÌoÌâ²kÉl]. Etymology: Fr, nuque, nape; Gk, chorde. an abnormal but common condition in which the umbilical cord is wrapped around the neck of the fetus in utero or of the baby as it is being born. It is usually possible to slip the loop or loops of cord gently over the child's head. Sometimes it is a single loose loop, and the shoulders may deliver through it. If it is tight, it may be clamped in two places and cut with sterile, blunt tipped scissors.