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A member asked:

Does the belly button "go" anywhere? or is it a dead end, so to speak? thank you.

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Leftover: The belly button is simply a port on your skin that was leftover after your umbilical cord was lost from delivery as a newborn infant. It is like a scar or remnant piece of skin that simply closes the remnants of the umbilical cord and its vessels that went into your body and now no longer function.

Dr Sia and another doctor agreed

Answered 1/27/2014

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