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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 608 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LIGAMENT (Lat. ligamentum, from ligare, to bind)

LIGAMENT (See also:
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Lat. ligamentum, from ligare, to bind) , anything which binds or connects two or more parts; in See also:

anatomy a piece of See also:

TISSUE (Fr. tissu, tissue, participle of tisser, Lat. texere, to weave)

tissue connecting different parts of an organism (see CONNECTIVE TISSUES and See also:

JOINTS

JOINTS) .

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