Over the first few weeks the redness disappears and is replaced by dry, flaking skin on the arms, legs and around the belly button.
She was the first television figure to show her belly button on camera.
First, a small incision (typically less than 1.25 cm or 0.5 in.) is made near the belly button.
He inspects the first clone and notices that it does not have a belly button.
Dunn's work now includes studies of parasites of raccoons, bacteria in houses, ants in backyards, giant crickets that live in homes and the biodiversity of belly buttons.
In some, the word "navel" actually refers to an indentation or hole instead of the belly button.
But the belly button is not -- it is a functionless byproduct of an adaptation (the remnants of the umbilical cord).
Practically, however, the waist is usually measured at the smallest circumference of the natural waist, usually just above the belly button.