Crossword-Solution: LIGAMENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Ligament | n. | Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond. |
| Ligament | n. | A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints. |
| Ligament | n. | A band of connective tissue, or a membranous fold, which supports or retains an organ in place; as, the gastrophrenic ligament, connecting the diaphragm and stomach. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “LIGAMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Tissue that connects bone to bone | 1 answer |
| Tie or bond. | 1 answer |
| FIBROUS tissue, cord of | 1 answer |
| Connecting tissue | 1 answer |
| Bone-to-bone connector | 1 answer |
| Bone-connecting tissue | 1 answer |
| Bone nexus | 1 answer |
| Bond or tie. | 1 answer |
| BONE-connecting cord of fibrous tissue | 1 answer |
| Muscle connector | 3 answers |
| Bone connector | 3 answers |
| vinculum | 6 answers |
| Tendon | 7 answers |
| CONNECTOR BONE | 10 answers |
| nexus | 11 answers |
| Ligature | 11 answers |
| Connective tissue | 16 answers |
| Yoke | 43 answers |
| CORD ___ | 44 answers |
| Knot | 53 answers |
| Fastener | 56 answers |
| Tie | 83 answers |
| Bond | 88 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "LIGAMENT"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
16 +2
New Suggestion for "LIGAMENT"
Related word tools
Sentences with LIGAMENT (5)
That which binds, ties, fastens,or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.
But all flies or sinks before fire almost in all bodies: when the common ligament is dissolved, the attenuable parts ascend, the rest subside in coal, calx, or ashes.
This is their retreat and strong hold; and the special use and functions of the remoter parts of the brain we are unable to determine; so utterly obscure and undefined is our present knowledge of the great ligament which binds together the body and the thinking principle.
Enough however results from this imperfect view of the ligament, to demonstrate the incongruity and untenableness of a doctrine which should assign the indications of different functions, exercises and propensities of the mind to the exterior surface of the scull or the brain.
This "tumor" consisted of the uterus, with the placenta attached to the fundus, the funis, a portion of the lateral ligament, containing one ovary and about three inches of vagina.
Quotes with LIGAMENT (3)
All the Navel therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker, and the connexion he must needs have unto heaven, who was the Sonne of God. For holding no dependence on any preceding efficient but God; in the act of his production there may be conceived some connexion, and Adam to have been in a moment all Navel with his Maker. And although from his carnality and corporal existence, the conjunction seemeth no nearer than of causality and …
Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.
My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1967–2022).