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ligament

Strong, flexible connective tissue, made of the protein collagen, which joins bone to bone at moveable joints and sometimes encloses the joints. Ligaments prevent bone dislocation (under normal circumstances) but allow joint flexion. The ligaments around the joints are composed of white fibrous tissue. Other ligaments are composed of yellow elastic tissue, which is adapted to support a continuous but varying stress, as in the ligament connecting the various cartilages of the larynx (voice box).

Ligaments are also classified as: funicular, or cylindrical cords; fasicular, or flattened bands; and capsular, or enveloping ligaments completely investing a joint.
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28) It commonly arises within the abdomen of young patients with predilection for the falciform ligament and ligamentum teres of the liver; it is characterized by fascicular and nested proliferation of uniform spindle cells and less prominent nucleoli and lacks multinucleation.
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The fibres to the ischial ramus, which form a sickle shaped extension, are known as the falciform ligament (Romanes, 1964) (Figure 2).
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Perforation can be identified on plain films as gas under the hemidiaphragms, gas tracking along the psoas margins, or the classic presentation of gas outlining the falciform ligament or both sides of the bowel wall (Rigler sign).
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