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Medical condition Flatulence Other names Farting, breaking wind, passing gas, cutting the cheese, cutting one loose, ripping one, tooting Specialty Gastroenterology Flatulence is the expulsion of gas from the intestines via the anus, commonly referred to as farting. "Flatus" is the medical word for gas generated in the stomach or bowels. A proportion of intestinal gas may be swallowed ...
The belly button is unique to each individual due to it being a scar, and various general forms have been classified by medical practitioners. [6] [7] [further explanation needed] Outie: A navel consisting of the umbilical tip protruding past the periumbilical skin is an outie. Essentially any navel which is not concave.
Belly dancers often have navel piercings or insert sequins into their navels to make it look attractive when they perform. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Not only them, many young everyday women also have them to add a charm to their navels. [ 45 ]
Apart from potentially staining your clothes, there aren’t any major risks of putting castor oil in your belly button, experts say. There are, however, risks of drinking castor oil.
Although navel exposure has become a recent trend in fashion in Japan, annual Heso Matsuri ("belly button festivals") [247] have been held in Japan since the late 1960s. The tradition of the Hokkaido Heso Odori ("belly button dance") began in 1968. [248] Dancers make their heso ("belly button") into a face, using paint, special costumes, and ...
Drive your belly button back toward your spine. Brennecke uses the analogy of walking into a cold lake or pool in order to contract the abdominal muscles. Hold your breath for 10 to 15 seconds ...
The navel or belly button; Umbilicus (mollusc), a feature of gastropod, Nautilus and Ammonite shell anatomy; Umbilicus, a genus of over ninety species of perennial flowering plants; Umbilicus urbis Romae, the designated center of the city of Rome from which and to which all distances in Rome and the Roman Empire were measured
The Belly Button Biodiversity Project began at North Carolina State University in early 2011 with two initial groups of 35 and 25 volunteers. [10] Volunteers were given sterile cotton swabs and were asked to insert the cotton swabs into their navels, to turn the cotton swab around three times and then return the cotton swab to the researchers ...