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.
Medical Definition of umbilical. 1  1: of, relating to, or used at the navel umbilical infection. 2  2: of or relating to the central abdominal region that is situated between the right and left lumbar regions and between the epigastric region above and the hypogastric region below umbilical pain.