To the side of this is another thing like a subterranean worm, red as blood, yet tethered by certain ligaments and nervelets [= choroid plexus and taenia semicircularis].
Nor are they bound with ligaments as are the joints, for these would not have been so strong, and furthermore the bones of the head do not need to move.
The muscles, tendons, and ligaments are more than half water; for it is found that they lose more than half their {55} weight when dried with moderate heat.
What office is performed by the ligaments of the joints?
The ligaments relax and the lens decreases in diameter while thickening at the centre, until its curvature is such as to focus all rays from the book sharply on the retina.
If we suddenly look through the window at something outside, the ligaments pull on the lens envelope and flatten the curves.
Each is attached by ligaments to the walls of the middle ear.
Its edges are attached to ligaments (L L), which pull outwards and tend to flatten the curve of its surfaces.
But, owing to greater injury, in dislocation the head of the bone slips out of the socket which should hold it, breaks through the ligaments surrounding the joint, and remains permanently out of place.
It could not have been detached until the ligaments had decayed, and if it had been separated after the decay of the soft parts, the bones would have been thrown into disorder.
A mummy, it is true, has been more or less preserved; but on exposure to the air of such a climate as ours it perishes rapidly, the ligaments being the last of the soft parts to disappear.
If it was the recent skeleton of a murdered man, then the bones had been carefully stripped of flesh so as to leave the ligaments intact.
The most common accident occurring to bones and joints is a sprain of the ligaments uniting the bones, or the tendons uniting the muscles and bones.
This is not very uncommon in the cow, the length of the body of the womb and the looseness of the broad ligaments that attach it to the walls of the pelvis favoring the twisting.
The ulceration of the interdigital tissue may extend to the ligaments of the fetlock or produce disease of the joint or bone.
Unless some precaution is taken the accident is liable to recur, as the ligaments have been stretched by the dislocation till they no longer hold the bone with that firmness necessary to retain it.
This may occur from misstep when the animal is moving rapidly, and the twisting or wrenching of the foot is sufficient to rupture partially the ligamentswhich bind the bones together at that part.
The muscles and ligaments are first to be cut through; and if the part can not then be detached by pulling, the bodies of the vertebræ may be separated by passing the knife through the joint.
The bones forming an articulation are bound together by numerous ligaments attached to bony prominences.
They are bored exactly in those places through which the ligaments that knit them are to pass.
Even after a body is dead, and its parts are separated by corruption, we find that these joints and ligaments can hardly be destroyed.
Accordingly, he trusted to the withes and ligaments with which he had bound his captives, and pursued his way directly toward the center of the lodges.
The young men whose duty it was to guard the prisoner instantly passed their ligamentsof bark across his arms, and led him from the lodge, amid a profound and ominous silence.
The anterior, posterior, and lateral ligaments are mainly concerned in preventing the gravid uterus, in quadrupeds, from pitching too far forward toward the diaphragm.
A most important point remains; the peritoneal ligaments of the uterus fully subserve suspensory functions.
The round ligaments are utterly unmeaning in the human female, but in the lower animals they serve the same purpose as the other ligaments.
It is invariably the result of severe violence, the limb at the moment being in such a position that the ligaments are on the stretch and the muscles taken at a disadvantage.
If the ligaments fail to unite, the head of the ulna tends to slip out of place in pronation and supination--recurrent dislocation.
There persists a variable amount of fluid in the joint, the ligaments are stretched and slack, and the quadriceps muscle is markedly wasted.
As the ligaments of the joint are not as a rule torn, there is little or no immediate displacement of the fragment.
The ligaments are stretched or partly torn, and there is effusion of fluid into the joint.
The capsular and other ligaments are slack, so that the joint is unstable and easily hyper-extended.
All the tissues on the medial, concave side of the foot are shortened, the structures most affected being the medial and the posterior ligaments of the ankle, and the inferior calcaneo-navicular ligament.
The articulations between the ribs and the vertebræ show similar changes, and the ligaments of the several joints tend to undergo ossification, so that the bones are fused together.
When reduction is prevented by the interposition of a portion of the torn ligaments between the bones, it is sometimes necessary to open the joint to ensure accurate adjustment.
There is pain on attempting movement, and tenderness on pressure, particularly on the side that is not displaced, as the ligaments there are on the stretch.
All the ligaments of the elbow, except the annular (orbicular), are torn or stretched.
The integrity of the coraco-clavicular ligaments prevents any marked drooping of the shoulder.
This solid bracing by bones and tying by ligaments gives the needed firmness to the wings; and enables their powerful muscles to work them.
Ligaments which pass from the uterus to the sacrum, and assist in holding the uterus in position.
Other atrophic changes in the genitalia are shriveling of the vulva, with prolapse of the vagina or uterus from relaxation of the ligaments and loss of the natural support afforded by the changed perineal body.
The Fallopian tubes, the ligaments of the uterus, and the ovaries.
You told me it had not been broken, but that the ligaments of the shoulder were contracted, and I could not got my hand higher than my head.
Dear Sir,—I have very much pleasure in testifying to the marked ability with which you restored my arm in 1880 when suffering from a very severe sprain of the ligaments in consequence of being thrown from my trap.
The spine of the back, one scapula, the pelvis, and the other three limbs were still held together by the ligaments and by parts of the skin; the other scapula was found not far off.
Paré used ligaments in stopping hemorrhages, improved the surgery in harelip and hernia operations and for suprapubic lithotomy.
In addition, the anterior, external, and superiorligaments of the malleus also tend to keep it in position and limit its movements.
The uterus is now suspended in the pelvis by the attachments of the broad ligaments only; the next step consists in ligaturing and dividing these.
The abdomen is opened in the usual way and the uterus is withdrawn from the abdomen and the arteries controlled by forceps, and the broad ligaments divided exactly as in the case of the subtotal operation.
Tarsal plates, which are attached to the orbital margins by the palpebral ligaments and which thereby form a barrier to the passage of infection backwards into the orbit.
Some operators prefer to control the vessels in the broad ligaments by means of hæmostatic forceps instead of ligatures.
A Sprain is produced by the overstretching of the muscles or ligaments or both about a joint.
The muscles and ligaments will not then be strained, and the bones will not be forced into an abnormal position.
If this is carefully done, theligaments which bind the bones will be left intact and the skeleton will hold together.
To the right and left of the stomach notice attached to the shell large muscles which connect by stout ligaments at their lower ends with the mandibles.
Note the ligaments which attach the plastron to the shoulder and pelvic girdles.
The crucial ligaments must then be divided cautiously, and the articular portion of the femur cleaned anteriorly by the knife, posteriorly by the operator's finger, so far as possible to avoid injury of the artery.
The flaps thus formed must then be dissected up and down, and the internal and external lateral ligaments divided, thus thoroughly opening the joint and exposing the crucial ligaments.
The extensor tendons are then raised from the carpus, and the dorsal and lateral ligaments of the wrist divided, the tendons still being left as far as possible undisturbed in their relation to the radius.
The remains of the ligaments were cut, flexion of the hand protruded the carious ends of radius and ulna.
The joint was then opened, the lateral ligaments of the ankle-joint divided, the foot dislocated so as to show the astragalo-calcanean ligaments, and allow them to be divided.
The flap is then dissected back, theligaments divided, when by extreme flexion of the limb the articular surface of the tibia and femur are thoroughly exposed.
The ligaments having been cut, the foot falls back.
There are not many cases of sprain of the back-sinew, that are not accompanied by inflammation of the ligaments of this joint; and numerous supposed cases of sprain higher up, are simple affections of the fetlock.
The branchial cartilages and sub-chordal ligaments are coloured blue, the branchiae red.
The branchial cartilages and the entapophysial ligaments are coloured blue, the branchiae red.
Perhaps this is due to the fact that in certain individuals the gastric ligaments are much stronger and more unyielding than they are in others.
The mechanics of the support of the body are sadly interfered with when the arch yields, for bones are pushed out of place and ligaments and tendons are lengthened in order that the foot may accommodate itself to the new conditions.
Many of the painful conditions described as lumbago are due to old injuries, to wrenches and sprains in this region due especially to heavy lifting and to the laceration of ligaments from over-exertion.
The re-assumption of normal active movement molds the old scars, strengthens the muscles and ligaments and improves the patient's general condition.
It unties the ligaments of my frame, takes me to pieces, dilates me out of myself, and by degrees, methinks, resolves me into heaven.
For then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Accordingly his vertebral column was forcibly flexed, itsligaments were stretched, and hemorrhages were produced in the great muscles of the back.
They are made by the union of two or more bones, held together by ligaments of fibrous tissue, and are lubricated by a thick, viscid fluid, called synovia, which is secreted by a special membrane inclosing the joints.
This condition is very uncommon in the mare, though occasionally seen in the cow, owing to the greater laxity of the broadligaments of the womb in that animal.
When knuckling has commenced, the indications are to relieve the tendons and ligaments by proper shoeing.
Still, shoulder lameness or sprain may exist, originating in lacerations of the muscles, the tendons or the ligaments of the joint, or perhaps in diseases of the bones themselves.
So long as inflammation of the periosteum and ligaments remains, a sharp blister of biniodid of mercury and cantharides may do good if the animal is allowed to rest for four or five weeks.
Such animals are especially liable to stumbling and to lameness from injury to the ligaments of the fetlock joints.
In some cases, especially in old horses long accustomed to fast work, the ligaments of the joints are ruptured, in whole or in part, and the lameness may last a long time.
The hamstring and the lateralligaments of the hock are now cut through, and the limbs extended by a rope tied round the lower end of the long bone above (tibia).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ligaments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
