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Definition

a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue that connects bones or cartilages

She tore a knee ligament and has to miss the rest of the season.

ligament = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones

She tore her ACL—one of the four major ligaments that hold the knee in place by.

ligaments = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones

Both tendons and ligaments are connective tissue.

ligaments = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones

While tendons connect muscles to each other or to bone, ligaments connect bone to bone.

ligaments = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones

In general, bones heal better than ligaments.

ligaments = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones

Dad made him quit after he tore a ligament, though.
S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders

ligament = a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages

There was nothing behind her now but steel ligaments and space.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Your daughter likely tore a ligament in the beginning and doubtless kept hurting the same leg over and over.
Dori Sanders -- Clover
Accordingly, he trusted to the withes and ligaments with which he had bound his captives, and pursued his way directly toward the center of the lodges.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
When he pushed down on the clutch, the ligaments moved under the smooth brown skin of his leg.
Maureen Daly -- Seventeenth Summer
The bullet had hit him in the shoulder, severing tendons and ligaments, shattering bone.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
Every kind of finer tendon and ligament that is in the nature of poultry to possess is developed in these specimens in the singular form of guitar-strings.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
Another, assaulted by someone wielding a machete atop the trains, arrived with the ligaments in his right hand severed.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey
A blue-black collection of blood—a hematoma—stretched the broad ligament of the uterus, and it glowed in the light like the Host.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Old Charlie and his mule were both stringhalted, each having a tight ligament in the leg that made him limp.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
George Washington -- Washington's Farewell Address
Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
It was necessary to pull hard enough to tear ligaments in the deceased's groin, and this Horace Whaley did.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
Every muscle, bone and ligament will hurt like they've been put through a meat grinder.
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America

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