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Ligament
"Ligament" in a Sentence (14 examples)
If she's not careful she'll tear a ligament doing that.
He tore his ligament.
Have you ever had a pulled ligament? It hurts like hell.
I tore a ligament in my knee and had to have surgery.
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.
The blood supply of the lower extremity comes from the external iliac artery, a branch of the common iliac, which passes obliquely downward and outward along the border of the psoas muscle to Poupart’s ligament, where it enters the thigh and becomes the femoral artery.
Tom tore a ligament doing that.
The two doctors used cadavers to confirm the existence of the ALL (anterolateral ligament), which was present in all but one of the 41 cadavers examined.
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It so chanced that at this juncture the decayed ligaments of the skeleton gave way, and the dry bones fell together in a heap, thus causing the dusty wreath of cypress to drop upon the table.
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.
It remains to mention one consideration which naturally occurred in the reflections upon the expediency of assuming the State Debts. This is its tendency to strengthen our infant Government by increasing the number of ligaments between the Government and the interests of Individuals.
1845, Daniel Webster, oration on Justice Joseph Story Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
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