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单词 ligament
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ligamentn.

/ˈlɪɡəmənt/
Etymology: < Latin ligāmentum, < ligāre to bind.
1.
a. Anything used in binding or tying; a band, tie; Surgery a bandage, ligature. Obsolete in lit. sense.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > bandage > [noun]
swathec1050
blood benda1250
blood bandc1300
bondc1384
whip1504
trusser1519
swath-band1556
swaddlea1569
winding band1582
deligature1583
ligation1598
bandage1599
fettle1599
ligament1599
selvage1599
swathe1615
swaddlings1623
anadesm1658
fasciation1658
girt1676
platysma1684
flannels1723
fillet1802
sealing1862
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun]
knitting13..
knot1393
ligaturec1400
embracer1548
attacha1586
ligation1598
ligament1599
writh1650
vinculum1678
alligature1755
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 344/1 Cut of linnen ligamentes the breadth of three fingers, grease them in this salve... Tye then these ligamentes theron.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §66 The Prince of Aurange..could finde no meanes to stanch the Bloud, either by Medicine or Ligament.
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iii. App. 101 The Gardener with his Ligaments of Leather secures the main Branches.
1735 J. Price Some Considerations Stone-bridge Thames 7 All the Work well cemented and join'd together with proper Ligaments.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. l. 332 Their drawers..are more convenient than breeches..being without any tight ligaments.
b. figurative. Chiefly, a tie, bond of union.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > that which connects or bond > a bond or tie between persons, etc.
ligament1426
ligation1598
ligature1627
tie1629
necessitya1639
attachment1930
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 22595 My boondes and my lygamentys Ben dyuerse comaundementys, To holden in subieccyoun ffolkes off relygyoun.
1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery iii. v. 280 The bishoppe of Rome..might haue released or pardoned..such ligaments, mults, or canonicall corrections as he had inioyned to publike offenders.
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §38 I have not those strait ligaments, or narrow obligations to the World, as to dote on life. View more context for this quotation
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. x. 45 He looked up..in my uncle Toby's face,—then cast a look upon his boy,—and that ligament, fine as it was,—was never broken.
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 96 The law of nations, the great ligament of mankind.
1841 R. C. Trench Notes Parables xvii. 287 The Sacraments are often spoken of..as the ligaments for the wounds of the soul.
1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. iv. 90 I find here a woman, a man, a child, amongst whom and myself there exist the closest ligaments. No matter whether of love or hate;..of right or wrong!
2.
a. Anatomy. One of the numerous short bands of tough, flexible, fibrous tissue which bind the bones of the body together. By extension applied to any membranous fold which supports an organ and keeps it in position.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > sinew, tendon, or ligament > [noun]
sinec725
sinewOE
stringc1000
bend1398
nerfa1400
nervea1400
cordc1400
ligamentc1400
ligaturec1400
couple1535
chord?1541
lien?1541
tendon?1541
tendant1614
artery1621
leader1708
ligamentum1713
chorda1807
vinculum1859
Tenon's capsule1868
tendo1874
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 20 Ne leeue we nouȝt þat ech brood ligament is a skyn, & ech round ligament to be a senewe.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) i. 7 I might have gently lost it in my Cradle, Before my Nerves and Ligaments grew strong.
1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 213 The Ligament of the Thigh-bone, which is commonly..called the round one.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. viii. 120 A..flexible ligament, inserted, by one end into the head of the ball, by the other into the bottom of the cup [of a ball and socket joint]; which ligament keeps the two parts of the joint..in their place.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxi. 199 The ligament which unites the Siamese twins.
1858 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. 275 To Goethe, bones and ligaments were not less beautiful and full of interest than flowers and streams.
b. A similar part in lower organisms.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > ligament
ligament1797
ligature1875
1797 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 537 A ligament placed at the summit of the [oyster] shell serves as an arm to its operations.
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 196 They [insects] are cut into two parts: these parts are in general connected by a slender ligament or hollow thread.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 185 In those with a sessile one [sc. abdomen] the base is attached to the metaphragm by strong ligaments.
c. spec. in Conchology. The elastic substance which holds together the valves of a bivalve shell.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > parts of
beard1649
hinge1704
cardo1725
palpus1803
disc1810
ligament1816
palp1835
tooth1847
hinge-tooth1851
beak1854
curtain1854
talon1854
resilium1895
hinge-ligament1909
1816 T. Brown Elements Conchol. 155
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 433/1 To this hinge is superadded a ligament.
1851 G. F. Richardson Geol. (1855) viii. 242.
1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 123 The ligament which holds the two shells together.

Compounds

ligament-wise adv.
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1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 389 These..are knit to the proper membrane of euery gristle by the interposition as it were of a Periostion Ligament-wise.

Derivatives

ˈligament v. Obsolete rare. to bind together
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > bind > bind up or together
forbindc897
bindc1000
to-knita1300
truss1340
louka1393
to knit up1509
to wind up?1533
upbind1590
pinion1608
abligate1615
fillet1633
ligament1659
ligature1716
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 210 There was great wisdom..in framing that oath; to ligament the single person and people together.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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