2006-11-07 08:36:12 · 15 answers · asked by sleepycaz 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
You got me going over this, so I've been all over the world looking for an answer
What is behind my belly button?
According to the punch line of an old joke: "If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom falls off." In reality, the umbilical vein comes from the afterbirth or placenta, which carries blood enriched with oxygen and nutrients to the developing baby.
The umbilical vein runs from the navel to the fetal liver and through a bypass vessel (the ducted venosus) to the fetal heart. After birth, the umbilical vein remains open for a time, but soon afterwards it closes and shrivels up to become a fibrous cord. It crosses the abdominal cavity in a fold of the abdominal wall lining forming the round ligament (the ligamentum teres). Sometimes things don't close as they should and an umbilical hernia develops.
meaning
Our belly button does not heal over because there is nothing between it and our stomach except a few thin layers of skin
2006-11-07 09:01:21 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes!
The umbilical vein which is present in the fetus closes up within a week of birth but is replaced with something called the round liagment or ligamentum teres. The other redundant blood vessels in the newborn also become ligaments.
2006-11-07 17:29:07 · answer #2 · answered by purplepadma 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, your arce, it holds your belly in position until a late age... warning, things can go titsup if you drink too much beer or eat loadsa food.
It is properly known as your "Yodun", when you are preborn and are hanging on the line to dry with all the other pre born kids, (You are pegged up with your ears, that is why some kids have big ones). God walks along stabbing out with his big bony finger and sayin... "Yodun" leaving a deep scar type mark.................
2006-11-07 16:52:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is probably the best answer I could find to this question:
"After birth, the lack of circulation through the umbilical system reduces the umbilical arteries to internal iliac arteries, and forms the vestiges of the umbilical vein into the round ligament which connects the liver to the naval in adults."
lol ;-)
2006-11-07 17:04:51 · answer #4 · answered by Butterscotch 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is one of the coolest questions I have ever seen on Yahoo heh heh. I await the responses!
2006-11-07 16:44:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
LOL I too would like to know this, sorry I don't have an answer. But I hope someone does, I used to believe my sister, when she said, if you poke it, your mother would forget who you was LMAO. Cant believe I just admitted that, to loads of people.
2006-11-07 16:49:16 · answer #6 · answered by sammy o 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
im sure it fuses with muscle no? they have to cut round it on those tummy tuck programmes, hmmm? yes im sure its attached to something or you would be able to move it around a bit. im confused lol
2006-11-07 16:50:25 · answer #7 · answered by louise 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No - nothing there once grown. It whiters & disappears. It's called the urachus until it disappears.
2006-11-07 16:59:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No its not attached to anything, your bellybutton is actually your first scar.
2006-11-07 16:46:35 · answer #9 · answered by magnum_lady 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You know, it must be. If I press on mine I feel a shock that goes downtown & have to pee.
2006-11-07 16:45:10 · answer #10 · answered by Simply_Renee 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋