Cruciate

She needed just three years after rupturing her cruciate ligament in 2005 before she was back on the winners' rostrum.

After tearing her cruciate ligament in 2005, she took just three years to get back on the winners' rostrum.

Knee surgeons at the University of Leuven in Belgium described, for the first time, a previously unknown ligament in the knee. The anterolateral ligament (ALL) appears to play an important role in patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears.

Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.

Immediately I was so cruciate, that I desired— death to take me.

In this life are they cruciate with a troublous and doubtfull conscience.

They vexed, tormented, and cruciated the weake consciences of men.

a. 1680, Joseph Glanvill, on the Preexistence of Souls The thus miserably cruciated spirit must needs quit its unfit habitation.