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unusual facts about ligament



An Qi

Without a club, An Qi would move to reigning league champions Changchun Yatai where he played understudy to Zong Lei, however before he could challenge for the goalkeeper position he suffered a knee ligament break where he would decide to go to Belgium to receive surgery and causing him to miss the entire 2008 league season.

Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center

In July 2008, when Israeli Olympic fencer Delila Hatuel tore her torn knee ligaments one month prior to the Olympics, including a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), she almost missed out on participating in the Olympics.

Bivalve shell

The mantle, a thin membrane surrounding the body, secretes the shell valves, ligament and hinge teeth.

Cricoarytenoid ligament

The Cricoarytenoid ligament extends from the lamina of the cricoid cartilage to the medial surface of the base and muscular process of the arytenoid cartilage.

Cricopharyngeal ligament

The Cricopharyngeal ligament extends from the cricoid lamina to the midline of the pharynx.

Cruciate ligament of atlas

The ligament is named as such because it is in the shape of a cross.

Donal Monaghan

Monaghan retired from inter-county football after the 1978 championship, while a knee ligament injury brought his club football career to an end in 1984.

Ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase 1

Mutations in this gene have been associated with Idiopathic infantile arterial calcification, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the spine (OPLL), and insulin resistance.

Eoin Bradley

In July 2011 Bradley suffered a knee injury in training and may have suffered cruciate ligament damage that could rule him out for the rest of the season.

Extrinsic extensor muscles of the hand

Opposite the metacarpophalangeal joint each tendon is bound by fasciculi to the collateral ligaments and serves as the dorsal ligament of this joint; after having crossed the joint, it spreads out into a broad aponeurosis, which covers the dorsal surface of the first phalanx and is reinforced, in this situation, by the tendons of the Interossei and Lumbricalis.

Interphalangeal articulations of hand

These three bands are united by a transverse retinacular ligament, which runs from the palmar border of the lateral band to the flexor sheath at the level of the joint and which prevents dorsal displacement of that lateral band.

Ólafur Ingi Skúlason

Ólafur missed the 2005/6 season due to a cruciate knee ligament injury resulting from a tackle with Chesterfield's Derek Niven.

Pectineal

Pectineal ligament, or Cooper's Ligament, located along the pecten pubis

Pterygospinous ligament

The pterygospinous ligament stretches from the upper part of the posterior border of the lateral pterygoid plate to the spinous process of the sphenoid.

Pubic ligament

Pectineal ligament or Cooper's pubic ligament (ligamentum pectineum)

Roy McFarland

McFarland had been deemed responsible for putting Włodzimierz Lubański, Poland's best striker at the time, out of football for two years after an apparent poor tackle damaged Lubański's cruciate ligament during a World Cup qualifying match in October 1973.

Shane Stefanutto

He sustained a potentially season-ending knee injury in a match against Perth Glory after an innocuous challenge with Adriano Pellegrino, which was presumed to be a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.

Sharpey's fibres

In the teeth, Sharpey's fibres are the terminal ends of principal fibres (of the periodontal ligament) that insert into the cementum and into the periosteum of the alveolar bone.

Warren Feeney

He scored his first goal for Swansea on 2 October, in a 2–1 win over Swindon Town and began to establish himself in the side, scoring 5 goals in ten matches, but on 15 December, while playing for Swansea in a match against Southend United he sustained injury to an ankle ligament after a heavy tackle by Lewis Hunt.


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