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Karl Hase
Do our belly buttons consist of scar tissue?
The place where the cord was cut do not stay with us - it falls in a week +- after the birth, while the umbilicus is the only visible natural scar formed by natural processes, not by gynecologists:
Multiple sources say the umbilicus has a scar tissue in it.
After birth the umbilicus is the only naturally formed visible scar on
the body.
Br J Plast Surg. 1998 Oct;51(7):538-41. Umbilicosculpture: a concept revisited.
Umbilicus is a scar, which is the place of the previous merger of the
fetus with the umbilical cord.
The place where the cord was cut do not stay with us - it falls in a week +- after the birth, while the umbilicus is the only visible natural scar formed by natural processes, not by gynecologists:
Multiple sources say the umbilicus has a scar tissue in it.
After birth the umbilicus is the only naturally formed visible scar on the body.
Br J Plast Surg. 1998 Oct;51(7):538-41. Umbilicosculpture: a concept revisited.
Umbilicus is a scar, which is the place of the previous merger of the fetus with the umbilical cord.
The place where the cord was cut do not stay with us - it falls in a week +- after the birth, while the umbilicus is the only visible natural scar formed by natural processes, not by gynecologists:
Multiple sources say the umbilicus has a scar tissue in it.
Br J Plast Surg. 1998 Oct;51(7):538-41. Umbilicosculpture: a concept revisited.
The place where the cord was cut do not stay with us - it falls in a week +- after the birth, while the umbilicus is the only visible natural scar formed by natural processes, not by gynecologists:
Multiple sources say the umbilicus has a scar tissue in it.
Br J Plast Surg. 1998 Oct;51(7):538-41. Umbilicosculpture: a concept revisited.
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