Belly Button – Dale’s Daily Data

Clinically known as the umbilicus – it’s also known as the navel or simply the belly button. It’s actually a scar left after the umbilical cord is removed from newborn babies. Belly buttons can be “innies” or “outies”. Extra skin left from the umbilical cord causes the “outie”. And because they’re scars, sometimes they’re a way to tell the difference between identical twins.

The location of the belly button is pretty consistant in humans, located between the third and fourth vertebrae.

Ideally, the belly button should be at about 62 percent of your total height.

In Indian culture, the belly button has long been considered a graceful identifying mark of a woman, but for many years in Western culture it was taboo.

In the 1960’s TV comedy “I Dream of Jeannie” TV censors wouldn’t allow actress Barbara Eden to show her navel even though she was supposed to be a 2000-year old genie who lived in a bottle. She had to wear veils around her midsection to cover up. But just a few years later on Gilligan’s Island – the Mary Ann character was sometimes shown with a bare navel.

We call it a belly button because it kind of looks like a button on your belly.

There are some other slang terms for body parts. There’s the schnoz, chicklets or pearly whites, peepers, butt or fanny, boobs or melons, mitts, digits, unibrow, south paw, locks, noggin, ticker, guts, noodle, dogs.

SOURCE: healthline.com