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umbilication

noun

  1. depression on the upper part of a pock on the skin
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From Latin umbilicatus. By surface analysis, umbilic- + -ation.

  1. A small, navel-shaped depression, or dimple, at the centre of a rounded body.

    papillary umbilications

    the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle