Word Meanings - LIGAMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington. A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or

Additional info about word: LIGAMENT

1. Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington. A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIGAMENT)

• Tie Band
• ligature
• ligament
• fastening
• knot
• bond

Related words: (words related to LIGAMENT)

• LIGATURE
  A curve or line connecting notes; a slur. (more info) 1. The act of binding. 2. Anything that binds; a band or bandage. A thread or string for tying the blood vessels, particularly the arteries, to prevent hemorrhage. A thread or wire
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• LIGAMENT
  1. Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington. A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or
• FASTENING
  Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
• LIGAMENTAL; LIGAMENTOUS
  Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.
• FASTEN
  Etym: 1. To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window. 2. To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• REFASTEN
  To fasten again.
• POUPART'S LIGAMENT
  A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones.