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navel

📅 Updated:2025-07-31
🕒 Created:2011-07-01
🆔 ID:1814

Description

The navel, also known as the belly button, is a scar on the abdomen caused when the umbilical cord is removed from a newborn baby. All placental mammals have a navel, but it is especially conspicuous in humans. Navels have a complex relationship with various cultures, social moors, sexuality, and fashion.
Types of Navel:
  • innie navel - the most common form of navel, a concave "hole", can have vary in shape and depth, for tagging purposes, is simply tagged as navel
  • big navel - A larger than average navel
  • deep navel - A navel that is depicted as deep, be it through something being inserted into it, or visually implied by the darkness of the navel
  • outie navel - A navel that protrudes, especially common during pregnancy.
  • unusual navel - Non-standard navels, such as a robotic character having a bolt or port in place of a normal navel
  • detailed navel - A navel drawn with more visual complexity than usual, with folds and wrinkles around and/or inside of the navel
  • x navel - a simplified stylized version of a navel that looks like an "X"
Navel Related Tags:
  • navel piercing - Piercing done through the navel for wearing jewelry such as navel rings.
  • navel outline - an imprint or impression of a covered navel
  • navel rim - a visible rim around part of the navel
  • navel cutout - an intentional window in clothing that exposes the wearer's navel
  • navel popping - an innie navel suddenly "popping out" and becoming an outie navel
Actions Related to the Navel:
Acts characters do to their own navel, or to other's navels

Related:

  • midriff - usually involves an exposed navel

See Also: