(n.) Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond.
(n.) A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints.
(n.) A band of connective tissue, or a membranous fold, which supports or retains an organ in place; as, the gastrophrenic ligament, connecting the diaphragm and stomach.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(2) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(3) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
(4) Ligaments played a very minor role in the lifts studied.
(5) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(6) Eight adolescents were followed 3-8 years after primary suture of a substance rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament.
(7) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(8) The clinical examination must cover all the anatomical detection of lesions of individual parts of the capsular ligaments.
(9) The major mode of failure was ligament disruption in the specimens from young adult humans and avulsion of bone beneath the ligament insertion site in the specimens from older humans.
(10) Ligament tissue seems to be less well suited to the microsphere technique; however, further study is warranted.
(11) We correlated the MRI report and arthroscopic findings of 18 patients with suspected meniscal or ligament injury.
(12) In some areas of the ligament, extracellular plasma membrane-invested matrix vesicles and thick wall-bound matrix giant bodies with or without mineralized deposits were present.
(13) Cubitus valgus or instability due to a pseudarthrosis of the lateral epicondyle or to ligamentous injury may stretch the nerve.
(14) (1986) described the connective tissue thickening and named it the mandibulo-stylohyoid ligament because of its arrangement and attachments.
(15) Immunohistochemical studies support earlier reports of a rich nerve supply to the posterior longitudinal ligament, a less developed innervation of the anterior ligament and the outermost annular ring, and a total lack of innervation in deeper parts of the intervertebral disc.
(16) The distinction between a benign and a severe ligamentous sprain may thus be made.
(17) Small extensions from the distopalmar outpouchings were seen and extended axially into the fibers of the suspensory ligament or between the suspensory ligament and the distal accessory ligament of the deep digital flexor tendon.
(18) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
(19) Diagnosis and therapy of 125 ruptures of the fibular ligaments and capsulae are reported.
(20) However, at angles of flexion of 30 degrees or less, the amount of posterior translation after section of only the lateral collateral ligament and the deep structures was similar to that noted after isolated section of the posterior cruciate ligament.
Ligement
Definition:
(n.) See Ledgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The characteristic findings are mental retardation, characteristic facies, narrow forehead, bushy eyebrows with synophrys, hypertelorism, broad nose, wide philtrum, triangular-shaped mouth, short neck, marked maxillary hypoplasia, a low hairline (especially posteriorly in the midline on the neck), brachycephaly, calcified clinoid ligements, and multiple bony abnormalities in the upper thoracic vertebrae and sometimes in the cervical region, together with a variety of deformities of the upper ribs.
(2) The author reports a case due to rupture of the posterior ligements, without vertebral displacement on the first films, but which became complicated secondarily by dislocation, which it was necessary to reduce by open operation.