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# ligament

«ligament» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strong, slightly stretchy band in your body that joins…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a ligament, ligaments)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A ligament is a strong, slightly stretchy band in your body that joins one bone to another at a joint, like the knee or ankle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/ligament/#m1)

2) Ligaments hold joints together and stop them bending the wrong way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/ligament/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and PE lessons, pupils learn the parts of the skeleton and joints: bones, muscles, tendons (join muscle to bone), ligaments (join bone to bone) and cartilage. Sports injuries such as a sprained ankle or a torn knee ligament are common; warming up helps. Phrases: «torn ligament», «knee ligament», «damaged ligaments», «sprain a ligament».

### examples

- Ligaments join bone to bone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/ligament/#x1)
- The footballer tore a ligament in his knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/ligament/#x2)
- A sprained ankle means a ligament has been stretched too far. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/ligament/#x3)
- Warming up helps protect your muscles and ligaments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/ligament/#x4)
- The doctor said the ligament would heal in six weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/ligament/#x5)
- Tendons attach muscles to bones, but ligaments attach bones to bones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/ligament/#x6)

### note

Easy trap: tendon (muscle to bone) vs ligament (bone to bone). Say it "LIG-a-ment". Plural «ligaments».

### In the corpora

- [Ligaments join bone to bone, while tendons join muscle to bone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/360-muscles-and-joints-by-name-biceps-triceps-knees-elbows-and-the-busiest-muscles/10/)
- [A torn ACL, a ligament inside the knee, often needs surgery and around 9 months of rehab before a player is back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ligament» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/ligament/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.