Definitions for ligaments

ligaments lig·a·ment

Spelling: [lig-uh-muh nt]
IPA: /ˈlɪg ə mənt/

Ligaments is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 914 anagrams from letters in ligaments (aegilmnst).

Definitions for ligaments

noun

  1. Anatomy, Zoology. a band of tissue, usually white and fibrous, serving to connect bones, hold organs in place, etc.
  2. a tie or bond:

Origin of ligaments

1375-1425; late Middle English Medieval Latin ligāmentum, Latin: bandage, equivalent to ligā(re) to tie + -mentum -ment

Examples for ligaments

This ligament is ruptured in certain severe cases of dislocation of the hip.

They are known from Erycina by not having the pit in the hinge for the ligament.

Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.

This is to say that its function is partially that of a ligament.

The hinge is toothless, but has a wide depression for the ligament.

Daniel Webster said justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

The hinges have two teeth; the ligament is elongated and external.

Having or containing the ligament, as the cardinal pit in Mya, fig. 71.

The hinge has small teeth or none, and the ligament, which is long, is internal.

Some of them were nearly as hard as ligament, and many an inch in length.

Word Value for ligaments
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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