Ligament used in a sentence

Ligament in a sentence as a noun

He has lost toenails, and one ankle ligament is seriously sore.

Apparently strong muscles can make up for weak ligaments.

It's hard to explain, but definitely not tendon or ligament pain.

When I twisted my knee and strained a ligament, I was told to do exercises to strengthen the muscles around the knee.

I know if I tear a knee ligament playing ultimate frisbee it could force me into bankruptcy.

With rovers shooting lasers on Mars I'm disappointed that ligament and joint repair isn't as routine as dental work.

Living in Canada and I've heard people pay for MRIs on the south side of the border just because an MRI to see if there's ligament damage in your knee would take 6 months.

I'll give you an example: the periodontal ligament is like a very precise shock absorber attaching bone to tooth, and gives some flex to the tooth.

The gossip and locker room wisdom I heard was is if I screwed up a ligament or muscle or joint by doing something really stupid at age 18 I'd heal perhaps three to ten times faster than the old retired guys.

Sometimes, however, the PDL fails to regenerate, and you end up with a situation where the tooth is ankylosed -- the ligamentous connection is gone, and the tooth is essentially fused to bone.

Yes, except OP being offered surgery for "ligament and tendon rerouting" as the solution to a problem the doctors spent just a few minutes understanding is the equivalent of your IT guy above suggesting the HR person open up their computer and reroute a bunch of wires, and take out a bunch of capacitors, to "see if it helps".

"\n \n Cook Ting laid down his knife and replied,\n "What I care about is the Way,\n which goes beyond skill.\n \n "When I first began cutting up oxen,\n all I could see was the ox itself.\n After three years I no longer saw the whole ox.\n And now -- now I go at it by spirit\n and don’t look with my eyes.\n Perception and understanding have come to a stop\n and spirit moves where it wants.\n \n "I go along with the natural makeup,\n strike in the big hollows,\n guide the knife through the big openings,\n and follow things as they are.\n So I never touch the smallest ligament or tendon,\n much less a main joint.\n \n "A good cook changes his knife once a year,\n because he cuts.\n A mediocre cook changes his knife once a month,\n because he hacks.\n I’ve had this knife of mine for nineteen years\n and I’ve cut up thousands of oxen with it,\n and yet the blade is still as newly sharpened.\n \n "There are spaces between the joints,\n and the blade of the knife has really no thickness.\n If you insert what has no thickness into such spaces,\n then there’s plenty of room,\n more than enough for the blade to play about in.\n That’s why after nineteen years\n the blade of my knife is still as newly sharpened.\n \n "However, whenever I come to a complicated place,\n I size up the difficulties,\n tell myself to watch out and be careful,\n keep my eyes on what I’m doing,\n work very slowly,\n and move the knife with the greatest subtlety,\n until -- flop!\n the whole thing comes apart\n like a clod of earth crumbling to the ground.\n \n "I stand there holding the knife and look all around me,\n completely satisfied and reluctant to move on,\n and then I wipe off the knife and put it away.

Proper Noun Examples for Ligament

For the sake of clarity:Tendons link muscle to bone; Ligaments link bone to bone;He tore a ligament, and it was replaced with a ligament, not a tendon.