Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ligament.
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Within a few weeks, new connective tissue replaces the ductus arteriosus and it becomes known as the ligamentum arteriosum
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Within a few weeks, new connective tissue replaces the ductus arteriosus and it becomes known as the ligamentum arteriosum
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Within a few weeks, new connective tissue replaces the ductus arteriosus and it becomes known as the ligamentum arteriosum
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This abnormal branch passes behind the esophagus and gives off the vessel to the left arm (the left subclavian artery) and the ligamentum arteriosum.
Vascular Ring 2010
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For right aortic arch with left ligamentum arteriosum, the surgeon divides the ligamentum arteriosum so that it no longer constricts the trachea or esophagus.
Vascular Ring 2010
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Right aortic arch with left ligamentum arteriosum: The aorta starts off to the right, instead of the left (as is normal), and gives off an abnormal branch from the descending aorta.
Vascular Ring 2010
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The ligamentum arteriosum is a remnant of a blood vessel that exists normally in the fetus; it runs between the aorta and the pulmonary artery, and in doing so completes the ring and also might constrict the trachea and/or esophagus.
Vascular Ring 2010
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In other mammalia this aperture lies further back, and takes a more oblique direction, so that the head is thrown forward, and requires to be upheld partly by muscular effort and partly by the ligamentum nuchæ, popularly known in cattle as the "pax-wax."
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various
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With the tips of the fingers or the back of a book, strike the right ligamentum patellæ.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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The round ligament (ligamentum teres) is the principal binding structure of the hip joint and it arises in a notch in the head of the femur and is attached in the subpubic groove close to the acetabular notch.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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