All 8 Uses

ligament
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Seabiscuit, by Hillenbrand
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As a result, the vast majority of horses' sleeping is done standing, which they can do thanks to ligaments that lock their leg joints in the extended position.†
Chpt 1.3 *

ligaments = tough fibrous tissues that connect bones
Their hands and shins were smashed and their knee ligaments ripped when horses twisted beneath them or banged into rails and walls.†
Chpt 1.5
Late in December, Seabiscuit overstepped in a workout and kicked himself in the left foreleg, dinging the suspensory ligament.†
Chpt 3.20

ligament = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones
Though the injury to the rapped leg was not serious—the horse was not even lame—he had always worried about that left front suspensory ligament and wanted to be at his home base if trouble developed.†
Chpt 3.20
It could be as bad as a broken bone or a blown suspensory ligament.†
Chpt 3.20
Then Smith asked him to turn sharply left, a trick he had learned to test the suspensory ligaments.†
Chpt 3.20

ligaments = tough fibrous tissues that connect bones
The injury was in the suspensory ligament.†
Chpt 3.20

ligament = tough fibrous tissue that connects bones
Seabiscuit's suspensory ligament was ruptured.†
Chpt 3.20

Definitions:

(1) (ligament)
a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue that connects bones or cartilages
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)