2. Adjective. forming part of a ligament ¹
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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
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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