Our intestines?? Our stomach??
2007-08-18 05:45:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Our belly-button or umbilicus was once our attachment to our mothers when we were still inside their womb. The umbilical cord served as a connection from the placenta to the mother.It was just where nutrients pass back and forth while still in-utero. This cord is cut and tied once the baby is delivered.The stump then falls off after several days thus creating our belly-button. It is neither connected to the stomach nor to the intestines.If you try to explore it, it is closed with no opening or connection to our insides, therefore, its just a 'wall' otherwise it would be an abnormal condition if it has connections with our insides.If urine comes out from there, then there is some sort or connection with the urinary bladder. This needs to be investigated further and the connection be closed.
2007-08-18 06:04:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In babies, sometimes they'll use the umbilical vessels to give IV fluids. Those fluids, or substances from the mother, pass into the fetal circulation, but pass up through the liver via the umbilical vein then the hepatic portal vein which becomes the ductus venous which empties into the inferior vena cava which goes to the heart.. Those vessels atrophy after birth most of the time. The umbilical vein forms the Ligamentum teres (round ligament of the liver which is the obliterated umbilical vein). The umbilical arteries come off the internal iliac arteries down in the pelvis near where the femoral circulation is located. These atrophy and become the medial umbilical ligaments.
There's nerves too. That's why when you scratch or press on your belly button you feel sensation in the groin area.
2007-08-18 06:50:43 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The belly button has an attachment on the inside from the bladder; it is called the urachus. It is not patent any more but the attachment is still there.
2007-08-18 09:57:05 · answer #3 · answered by dwp_hornblower 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The umbilical artery is a paired artery (with one for each half of the body) that is found in the abdominal and pelvic regions. In the fetus, it extends into the umbilical cord.
2007-08-18 06:13:09 · answer #4 · answered by dazdncrazed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it carried blood from your mother to you in utero, so I imagine it's still part of your circulatory system.
2007-08-18 05:58:19 · answer #5 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
nothing.. it is just an inverted knot if you are an innie
2007-08-18 05:50:40 · answer #6 · answered by wishbone 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋