A monster which dies when umbilical cord is severed from the mother.
A monster that posesses an imperfect kind of life, which ceases when the umbilical cord is divided.
Monster that cannot live after the navel-string is cut.
An embryo or fetus of imperfect development due to the presence of a second embryo in the uterus, which supplies blood for both by means of anastomoses of the placental vessels of a common placenta as in monochorial twins. [Gr.]