The umbilical cord contains Wharton's jelly, a gelatinous substance which protects the blood vessels inside and acts as a mucous connective tissue.
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Gelatinous
//d͡ʒəˈlæt.ɪn.əs//
Synonyms for "gelatinous" (53 found)
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32 translations across 17 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- xelatinosu adj (jelly-like)
Catalan
2 entries- gelatinós adj (jelly-like)
- gelatinós adj (of or referring to gelatin)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 動物膠的 /动物胶的 adj (of or referring to gelatin)
- 膠狀 /胶状 adj (jelly-like)
- 膠質 /胶质 adj (jelly-like)
Czech
1 entries- rosolovitý adj (jelly-like)
Esperanto
1 entries- gelatena adj (jelly-like)
Finnish
2 entries- gelatiininen adj (of or referring to gelatin)
- hyytelömäinen adj (jelly-like)
French
1 entries- gélatineux adj (jelly-like)
Galician
1 entries- xelatinoso adj (jelly-like)
Georgian
4 entries- ლაბოვანი adj (jelly-like)
- ლაბრისებრი adj (of or referring to gelatin)
- ჟელატინის adj (jelly-like)
- ჟელატინის adj (of or referring to gelatin)
German
4 entries- Gelatine adj (of or referring to gelatin)
- gelatineartig adj (jelly-like)
- gelatinös adj (jelly-like)
- geleeartig adj (jelly-like)
Italian
1 entries- gelatinoso adj (jelly-like)
Polish
2 entries- galaretowaty adj (jelly-like)
- żelatynowy adj (of or referring to gelatin)
Portuguese
1 entries- gelatinoso adj (jelly-like)
Russian
2 entries- желатиновый adj (of or referring to gelatin)
- студени́стый adj (jelly-like)
Slovene
2 entries- zdrizast adj (jelly-like)
- želatinast adj (of or referring to gelatin)
Spanish
1 entries- gelatinoso adj (jelly-like)
Swedish
1 entries- gelatinartad adj (jelly-like)
Sample sentences
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In certain star-fishes, small depressions in the layer of pigment which surrounds the nerve are filled, as described by the author just quoted, with transparent gelatinous matter, and this projects outwardly with a convex surface, like the cornea in the higher animals.
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Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness.
Source: wiktionary
Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Gelatinous was the right word. It had come into his head spontaneously. His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency.
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