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the unsung rope holding your skeleton together while tendons hog the credit.
means A tough band of fibrous connective tissue that links bone to bone and keeps your joints from coming apart.
from Straight from Latin ligamentum, 'a band or tie,' from ligare, 'to bind' — the same knot-tying root that gives us 'ligature,' 'oblige,' and 'ally.' Aptly, the word for the body's binding straps literally means 'binding thing.'
jobconnects bone to bone, not muscle
blood supplyso poor that tears heal painfully slow
the popping ACLoften snaps with an audible crack
hidden onesorgans hang from ligaments too, not just joints
name originLatin ligare, meaning to bind