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Of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament.

Pertaining to the ilium and femur; as, iliofemoral ligaments.

Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the inguen or groin; as, an inguinal canal or ligament; inguinal hernia. Inguinal ring. See Abdominal ring, under Abdominal.

Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments.

Between the carpal bone; as, intercarpal articulations, ligaments.

Between columns or pillars; as, the intercolumnar fibers of Poupart's ligament; an intercolumnar statue.

An interhyal ligament or cartilage.

Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament.

Between sesamoid bones; as, intersesamoid ligaments.

Of or pertaining to the ischium and the capsule of the hip joint; as, the ischiocapsular ligament.

The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebræ, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.

(Far.), an inflammatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck. -- Poll pick (Mining), a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar. -- Poll tax, a tax levied by the head, or poll; a capitation tax.

One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.

g to both the sacrum and the hip; as, the sacrosciatic formina formed by the sacrosciatic ligaments which connect the sacrum and hip bone.

That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.

ly supposed. Harbaugh. Bog spavin, a soft swelling produced by distention of the capsular ligament of the hock; -- called also blood spavin. -- Bone spavin, spavin attended with exostosis; ordinary spavin.

To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.

A description of the ligaments; syndesmology.

That part of anatomy which treats of ligaments.

An articulation formed by means of ligaments.