suspensory ligament

American

noun

Anatomy.

any of several tissues that suspend certain organs or parts of the body, especially the transparent, delicate web of fibrous tissue that supports the crystalline lens.

Etymology

Origin of suspensory ligament

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

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Sesamoid bones provide anchor points for the two branches of the suspensory ligament.

From Washington Times • Mar. 5, 2019

Extending from the mesovarium itself is the suspensory ligament that contains the ovarian blood and lymph vessels.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Owned and trained by the same connections, Successful Dan has missed all of 2011 with a suspensory ligament injury.

From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2011

To Honor and Serve, Mott’s best Derby prospect in years, came up with a strained suspensory ligament in his left foreleg when finishing third in the Florida Derby on April 3.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2011

Though the injury to the rapped leg was not serious—the horse was not even lame—he had always worried about that left front suspensory ligament and wanted to be at his home base if trouble developed.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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