Umbilical vessels

Umbilical vessels can refer to:

Umbilical artery, one of a pair of blood vessels that supply deoxygenated blood from within the fetus to the placenta
Umbilical vein, a blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood from the placenta into the fetus

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