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Why doesn't my belly button heal over?

Stefan Modin

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Anonymous Coward

Belly Button 

More to the point though - why do I find "Outie" Belly buttons so nasty and presumably other people find "innies" equally horrible.

Sam Penny

What's between the navel and the stomach? 

I'm not an anatomy expert, but surely there's a little more than "a few thin layers of skin" between the navel and the somach, I make it about 4 inches, when it's not sagging down due to being full... (see gray's anatomy - http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/subjects/subject?id=247, or the wikipedia entry on the stomach - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomach) Not to mention the peritonaeum, musculature of the abdomen and however much intestine is sitting in that ~4 inches...

Or am I misreading the anatomy diagrams I'm looking at?

Cheers & God bless

Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny

Robert Claypool

What does "heal over" mean? 

All I get when I search on Google is a bunch of songs and a videogame aspect called "heal over time"

jubtastic1

Re: What does "heal over" mean? 

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