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any connection or unifying bond

any connection or unifying bond

Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond.

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.

Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond.

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.

Shiny, flexible bands of fibrous tissue connecting together articular extremities of bones. They are pliant, tough, and inextensile.

A strong elastic tissue connecting the ends of movable bones, or holding in place an organ of the body; a bond or tie.

1. A band or sheet of fibrous tissue connecting two or more bones, cartilages, or other structures, or serving as support for fasciae or muscles. 2. A fold of thickened peritoneum supporting any of the abdominal viscera. 3. Any structure resembling a ligament though not performing the function of such. 4. The remains of a fetal artery or other structure.

Fibrous sheet of tissue fastening parts to each other.

Anything that binds; fibrous tissue connecting movable bones.

A fibrous band which binds related structures, as bones, together; a bond of union.

Anything that binds; a strong compact substance, binding one bone to another.

Anything which ties or unites; the strong fibrous substance which connects the ends of the movable bones.

A name given to fibrous structures, which serve to unite bones, and to form articulations; hence the division into interosseous and articular ligaments. They are of a white, close texture; are but little extensible, and difficult to break. The name ligament has, also, been given to any membranous fold, which retains an organ in its situation.

A tough band connecting bones or supporting viscera.

Any strong, fibrous, compact tissue serving to bind or more or less closely connect one structure with another. The ligaments uniting the bones consist of a white, solid, inelastic substance.

n. [Latin] Any thing that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bond;— a strong, compact substance, serving to bind one bone to another.