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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.
- Both tendons and ligaments are connective tissue.
- 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.S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders
- 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
ligaments = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones
ligaments = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones
ligaments = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones
ligaments = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones
ligament = a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages
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