a. [f. LIGAMENT + -OUS.] Of the nature of, or characteristic of, a ligament; composed of the tissue proper to ligaments.
1683. A. Snape, Anat. Horse, I. vi. (1686), 9. A Muscle, which is one while ligamentous and nervous, and otherwhiles fleshy.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Plants, Those [plants] that are not woody may be reduced to six Sorts, viz. the fibrous, ligamentous, bulbous [etc.].
1796. Phil. Trans., LXXXVII. 23. All ligamentous parts … are weak in their vital powers.
1804. Abernethy, Surg. Obs., 32. It had unfortunately acquired a ligamentous adhesion to the orbicular ligament of the hip.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. 409. The second kind of articulation, the ligamentous, he affirms takes place only in orthopterous and some neuropterous insects.
1872. Mivart, Elem. Anat., 28. Ligamentous fibres bind together the margins of the apposed articular surfaces.
1880. Günther, Fishes, 119. The tongue consists merely of ligamentous or cellular substance.
b. Pertaining to the ligaments of the body.
1804. Med. Jrnl., XII. 563. Gouty, or ligamentous and tendinous inflammation.
Hence Ligamentously adv., by ligaments.
1883. Encycl. Brit., XVI. 609. Being also connected ligamentously with the scapulæ.
