Definition of Ligamentous

1. Adjective. of or pertaining to ligaments ¹

2. Adjective. forming part of a ligament ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ligamentous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Ligamentous

1. Relating to or of the form or structure of a ligament. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ligamentous

ligamenta navicularicuneiformia
ligamenta ossiculorum auditus
ligamenta palmaria
ligamenta plantaria
ligamenta sacroiliaca anteriora
ligamenta sacroiliaca interossea
ligamenta sacroiliaca posteriora
ligamenta sternocostalia radiata
ligamenta sternopericardiaca
ligamenta suspensoria mammae
ligamenta tarsi
ligamenta tarsometatarsalia
ligamenta trachealia
ligamental
ligamentopexis
ligamentous (current term)
ligaments
ligaments of auditory ossicles
ligaments of malleus
ligamentum
ligamentum acromioclaviculare
ligamentum annulare
ligamentum annulare bulbi
ligamentum annulare radii
ligamentum annulare stapedis
ligamentum anococcygeum
ligamentum apicis dentis
ligamentum arcuatum laterale
ligamentum arcuatum mediale

Literary usage of Ligamentous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
"Successful Treatment of a Case of ligamentous Union of Fractured Radius and Ulna by Drilling and Wiring, after Failure by other Means. By EK SANBORN, MD, ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"... surgeon should remember this ligamentous action of muscles in making passive motion—for instance, at the wrist after Colles' fracture. ..."

3. The London Medical Gazette (1834)
"When this happens, the ends of the bones entering into the fracture are covered over with a ligamentous structure, and are enclosed in a complete capsular ..."

4. Therapeutic Gazette (1904)
"bone, but the ligamentous expansions to either side of it, which represent practically the tendons of insertion of the vasti muscles. ..."

5. Intestinal Surgery by Nicholas Senn (1889)
"Strangulation by ligamentous Bands or Diverticula. ligamentous bands resulting from old adhesions are usually found in parts of the abdominal cavity most ..."

6. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London: Vol. I-XLIX, for the Year by Obstetrical Society of London (1897)
"GALABIN showed a specimen of extra-uterine gestation of the intra-ligamentous variety, which had reached full term and was removed by operation after being ..."

7. The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States by William Biddle Atkinson (1878)
"... by removing the ligamentous tissue between the fragments, which were then secured by bone pegs passed through their diameter, and left permanently in ..."

8. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1914)
"... and ligamentous stretching is often induced. Taken with the incoordination of movement, there is little doubt that the joints are subjected to unusual ..."

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