Medical Word of the Day: Omphalocele

• By Greg on April 27, 2009
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Omphalocele: (audio pronunciation) A birth defect in which part of the intestine, covered only by a thin transparent membrane, protrudes outside the abdomen at the umbilicus. The underlying error is a failure during embryonic development for a section of the intestines (the midgut) to return from outside the abdomen and reenter the abdomen, as it Read more…