MEANING
A tough connective-tissue band linking bones or supporting organs.
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- torn ligament
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A torn ligament made the joint unstable.
The ligament stretched between the bones.
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- Base
- ligament
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular ligament; plural ligaments. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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