ligament

Converse of object

• sprain: Sean Marshall In the same game, Sean sprained the ankle ligaments in his right foot.
• rupture: Therefore the injury begins medially, rupturing the deltoid ligament or pulling of the medial malleolus.
• tear: Another patient is a builder who tore the ligaments in his knee.
• injure: Dale Binns is new Stevenage manager Mark Stimson's only headache, having injured a knee ligament in the build-up to the season.

Adjective modifier

• cruciate: An MRI scan was arranged which revealed the anterior cruciate ligament to be ruptured.
• anterior: An MRI scan was arranged which revealed the anterior cruciate ligament to be ruptured.
• torn: Instead the torn ligament must be replaced by a graft.
• suspensory: The vet injected the suspensory ligament which sorted that problem out.
• inguinal: The nerve travels to the thigh by passing under or through the inguinal ligament in its own tunnel.
• medial: He sustained a 90 per cent tear of his medial ligaments in last Tuesday's Test match.

Modifies a noun

• rupture: Micky Adams will be without Isaac Osbourne who has a knee ligament rupture.
• laxity: Cruciate ligament reconstruction may alleviate the anterior knee pain associated with anterior or posterior cruciate ligament laxity.
• sprain: These injuries include ligament sprains or tears, dislocations of the kneecap and cartilage ( meniscus ) injuries.
• reconstruction: Early range of motion training after ligament reconstruction of the ankle joint.
• injury: Wes Daly - Wes has a lateral ligament injury in his left knee.

Noun used with modifier

• deltoid: A few also have localized tenderness over the deltoid ligament; these tend to have more complex injuries.
• collateral: The lateral collateral ligament is on the outside of the knee.
• ankle: All of these studies were of people who had been treated for an ankle ligament injury.
• knee: Striker King missed the majority of last season with a knee ligament injury.
• carpal: Anatomy The ulnar nerve travels with the ulnar artery in the tunnel of Guyon, covered by the transverse carpal ligament.