ligamentous
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By the disease the bone has already been made brittle, its substance and ligamentous attachments perchance weakened and broken up by a slow-spreading caries, and rarefaction of the remaining bone substance rendered almost certain.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
The skin and the strong ligamentous cord attached to the poll are the essential things to cut, as the muscles can easily be torn across.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
The Posterior Border, thick in the middle, but thinner towards the extremities, is roughened for ligamentous attachment.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
Twists or sprains are produced by movements that suddenly put the ligamentous and muscular structures of the spine on the stretch—in other words, by lesser degrees of the same forms of violence as produce dislocation.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
That ligamentous injuries owing to sprain frequently occur and attendant periarticular inflammations with subsequent hypertrophic changes follow, is a logical inference.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
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