What is at the other end of your bellybutton?

Answer 1

Do not unscrew your belly button , your bum will fall off...

Answer 2

The question should have been: What WAS at the other end of your bellybutton? Then the answer is: The placenta!

Answer 3

I think your intestines used to be - as when babies are initially forming, this part starts off outside their bodies (joined to the umbilical cord)and moves inwards in the first few weeks of life.

However, it is blood that travels through the umbilical cord while you're int he womb - so perhaps it used to join onto the bloodstream.

Undoubtedly by early childhood it no longer joins onto anything as it's no longer needed.

Answer 4

Your belly button is a knot in the umbilical cord, so the other end is the back of the knot and what is left of the cord inside you.

Answer 5

Basically it is your abdominal wall. Technically, however, it is called the "umbilicus."

The blood vessels traveling through the umbilical cord provide the developing fetus with nutrients and oxygen through the "umbilical vein" which branches off in the fetus, as well as a way to return oxygen-depleted blood and to eliminate waste through the two "umbilical arteries" (also see http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/subjects/subject?id=139 ).

I don't want to get too complicated on you, but during the development of the fetus the right umbilical vein "shrivels and disappears", whereas "[t]he left umbilical vein and the ductus venosus undergo atrophy and obliteration after birth, and form respectively the ligamentum teres and ligamentum venosum of the liver" (there's much more where that came from in the corresponding chapters of Gray's Anatomy on the development of the vascular system, see http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/subjects/subject?id=135#32 ).

And "[o]f the hypogastric arteries, the parts extending from the sides of the bladder to the umbilicus become obliterated between the second and fifth days after birth, and project as fibrous cords, the lateral umbilical ligaments, toward the abdominal cavity, carrying on them folds of peritoneum" (see http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/subjects/subject?id=139#4 ).

But like they say, "A picture is worth a thousand words" (see http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/art-11841 ).
;-)

Answer 6

I think the belly button is a scar in the skin were the cord was while in the womb. so the area now is just skin and if you disected it the cross section would be the same as normal skin.

Answer 7

Well, the belly button is where your umbilical cord used to be, so i would assume it leads to your stomach as the umbilical cord was used to transfer food between the mother and child inside the womb.

Answer 8

which end?
the outer part or the inner part?
My mum always told me that if i played with my belly button the button( which she said was a knot) would come undone like a balloon and i would make a farting noise and blow round the room.
I was only 3 at the time and I remember it well.

Answer 9

Ahhh, a gateway to another world. Unfortunately many of us don't have the capability to view this magnificent kingdom of delight. But those who do....those are the lucky ones.

Answer 10

What do you mean what is on the end of the belly button

Answer 11

A Cadburys nut and a chocolate screw to keep it in place !!!