单词 | ligament |
释义 | ligamentn. a. Anything used in binding or tying; a band, tie; Surgery a bandage, ligature. Obsolete in lit. sense. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. DerivativesΘΚΠ 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). < n.c1400 |
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