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  • While tendons connect muscles to each other or to bone, ligaments connect bone to bone.
  • In general, bones heal better than ligaments.
  • Dad made him quit after he tore a ligament, though.  (source)
    ligament = a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages
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  • Grant had finally put that one to rest, by demonstrating that many species of birds and reptiles underwent a postmortem contraction of posterior neck ligaments, which bent the head backward in a characteristic way.†  (source)
    ligaments = tough fibrous tissues that connect bones
  • Watching the dog move told Edgar it would be two weeks—two, three, even—before they could travel, assuming Tinder's paw didn't get infected, and he hadn't cut a tendon or ligament so vital he would (as Henry had so delicately suggested) be crippled.†  (source)
    ligament = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones
  • The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires.†  (source)
    ligaments = tough fibrous tissues that connect bones
  • On Heaven's Gate, I discovered what a mental stimulant physical labor could be; not mere physical labor, I should add, but absolutely spine-bending, lung-racking, gut-ripping, ligament-tearing, and ball-breaking physical labor.†  (source)
    ligament = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones
  • Another, assaulted by someone wielding a machete atop the trains, arrived with the ligaments in his right hand severed.†  (source)
    ligaments = tough fibrous tissues that connect bones
  • Blood had filled the broad ligament on one side.†  (source)
    ligament = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones
  • The bullet had hit him in the shoulder, severing tendons and ligaments, shattering bone.†  (source)
    ligaments = tough fibrous tissues that connect bones
  • Every muscle, bone and ligament will hurt like they've been put through a meat grinder.†  (source)
    ligament = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones
  • It was necessary to pull hard enough to tear ligaments in the deceased's groin, and this Horace Whaley did.†  (source)
    ligaments = tough fibrous tissues that connect bones
  • Seabiscuit's suspensory ligament was ruptured.†  (source)
    ligament = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones
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