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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 284 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAVEL (O. Eng. nafela, a word
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common to Teutonic
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languages; of. Ger. Nobel, Swed. nafvel; the
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Sanskrit is nabhila; the
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English root is also seen in "
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nave," the hub of a wheel)
  , in anatomy, the umbilicus (Gr . 6).i aXos), the depression in the abdomen which indicates the point through which the embryo mammal obtained nourishment from its
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mother (see ANATOMY: section Superficial and
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Artistic) .

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