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- Ligament - n. - Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond.
- Ligament - n. - A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints.
- Ligament - 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.
- Ligamental - a. - Alt. of Ligamentous
- Ligamentous - a. - Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.
- Paxwax - n. - The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebrae, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.
- Extracapsular - a. - Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
- Bivalve - n. - A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.
- Interhyal - n. - An interhyal ligament or cartilage.
- Trapezoid - a. - Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.
- Band - v. t. - A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter.
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- G1199 δεσμόν - 1199 δεσμόν - ΔΕΣΜΌΝ - - desmón - des-mos' - neuter and masculine respectively from δέω; a band, i.e. ligament (of the body) or shackle (of a prisoner); figuratively, an impediment or disability:--band, bond, chain, string. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G860 ἁφή - 860 ἁφή - ἉΦΉ - - haphḗ - haf-ay' - from ἅπτομαι; probably a ligament (as fastening):--joint. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G4886 σύνδεσμος - 4886 σύνδεσμος - ΣΎΝΔΕΣΜΟΣ - - sýndesmos - soon'-des-mos - from σύν and δεσμόν; a joint tie, i.e. ligament, (figuratively) uniting principle, control:--band, bond. - Noun Masculine - greek