different between ligament vs epicondyle

English

Etymology

From Middle English ligament, from Latin lig?mentum, from lig? (“tie, bind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l???m?nt/

Noun

ligament (plural ligaments)

1. (anatomy) A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.
2. (figuratively) That which binds or acts as a ligament.
   • Paraphrase of Daniel Webster, from his oration on Justice Joseph Story

     Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Derived terms

• ligamental
• ligamentary
• ligamentous

Translations

See also

• sinew
• tendon

Anagrams

• tegminal

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lig?mentum, from lig? (“tie, bind”). Cf. also liement, possibly an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.?a.m??/

Noun

ligament m (plural ligaments)

1. ligament

Related terms

• lier

Further reading

• “ligament” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lygament

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lig?mentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li??a?m?nt/, /?li?am?nt/

Noun

ligament (plural ligamentes)

1. A ligament or similar connecting tissue (e.g. a tendon)
2. (rare) That which binds.

Descendants

• English: ligament

References

• “lig??ment, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ligament, itself a borrowing from Latin lig?mentum, from lig? (“tie, bind”). Compare leg?mânt, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [li.?a?ment]

Noun

ligament n (plural ligamente)

1. ligament

Declension

English

Etymology

epi- +? condyle

Noun

epicondyle (plural epicondyles)

1. (anatomy) A protuberance above the condyle of a bone to which ligaments or tendons are attached.

Derived terms

• epicondylar
• epicondylectomy
• epicondylic
• epicondylitis

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