| 释义 |
ligamental, a.|lɪgəˈmɛntəl|
[f. ligament + -al1.]
Of the nature of a ligament; composed of the fibrous tissue of which ligaments consist.
1578Banister Hist. Man i. 2 Muscles often spryng out of Ligamentall Cartilages. 1615Crooke Body of Man 628 The Tongue..hath no Ligamentall Fibres to strengthen it as Muscles haue. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. v. 239 The Urachos or ligamentall passage derived from the bottome of the bladder.
b. Pertaining to the ligament (of a bivalve).
1850J. D. Sowerby in Dana's Geol. App. i. 699 Equivalve, suborbicular, thin,..ligamental area elongate. 1854Woodward Mollusca ii. 247 The internal ligament, or cartilage, is lodged in furrows formed by the ligamental plates. Ibid. 286 A distinct ligamental ridge in each valve. |