Definition of Hamstrings

1. Noun. (plural of hamstring) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hamstrings

1. hamstring [v] - See also: hamstring

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hamstrings

hams up
hamsa
hamsandwich
hamsas
hamshackle
hamster
hamster wheel
hamsterlike
hamsters
hamstring
hamstring tendon
hamstringer
hamstringers
hamstringing
hamstrings (current term)
hamstrung
hamular
hamular notch
hamular process of lacrimal bone
hamular process of sphenoid bone
hamulate
hamule
hamuli
hamulose
hamulous
hamulus
hamulus cochleae
hamulus lacrimalis
hamulus laminae spiralis

Literary usage of Hamstrings

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

1. Technique of Operations on the Bones, Joints, Muscles and Tendons by Robert Soutter (1917)
"When the adductor muscles and hamstrings are contracted and ... Operation for Tenotomy of the hamstrings or Tendon Lengthening.—This operation should never ..."

2. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"tent character; painful contraction of hamstrings ; limb emaciated; limb painful to touch; pains renewed or increased in a recumbent posture, ..."

3. Modern Methods in the Surgery of Paralyses by Alfred Herbert Tubby, Robert Jones (1903)
"Lateral view of inner hamstrings to show transplantation of the sartorius into the patella at a ... hamstrings ..."

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