🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

인대

Pronunciation / Transliteration: indae

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ligament/ˈlɪɡ.ə.mənt/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그는 축구 경기 중 무릎 인대가 파열되었다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A short band of tough, flexible, fibrous connective tissue which connects two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint.

    "She tore a ligament in her knee during the football match."

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin word ligamentum, meaning 'band' or 'string', which stems from the Latin verb ligare, meaning 'to bind'. It entered the English language in the late 16th century via Old French, originally denoting a band used to tie or fasten things together before specializing in anatomical usage.

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