ligamentum
Americannoun
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ligamenta
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of ligamentum
From Medieval Latin; see origin at ligament
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The ductus arteriosus constricts as a result of increased oxygen concentration, and becomes the ligamentum arteriosum.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The ductus venosus closes slowly during the first weeks of infancy and degenerates to become the ligamentum venosum.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
These are the falciform ligament, the coronary ligament, two lateral ligaments, and the ligamentum teres hepatis.
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Eventually, the muscular and endothelial components of the ductus arteriosus degenerate, leaving only the connective tissue component of the ligamentum arteriosum.
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Tenderness may be elicited on making pressure to the medial side of the ligamentum patellæ in the groove between the femur and the tibia, but the meniscus cannot be recognised by palpation.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
These amulets were styled ligamenta, ligaturæ, or phylacteria, by the writers of the early Middle Ages.
From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence
Gabriele Zerbi noted the oblique and the circular muscles of the stomach and described the puncta lachrymalia, the ligamenta uteri and other anatomical details which had escaped description previously.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
This forward movement is checked by the tension of the ligamenta flava which stretch between the laminæ.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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