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Descriptor English: Ligaments
Descriptor Spanish: Ligamentos
Descriptor ligamentos
Entry term(s) ligamento interóseo
Scope note: Bandas fibrosas de tejido, brillantes y flexibles, que mantienen unidas las extremidades articulares de los huesos. Son estructuras flexibles, resistentes e inextensibles.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ligamentos
Descriptor French: Ligaments
Entry term(s): Interosseal Ligament
Interosseal Ligaments
Interosseous Ligament
Interosseous Ligaments
Ligament
Ligament, Interosseal
Ligament, Interosseous
Tree number(s): A02.513
A10.165.669
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008022
Scope note: Shiny, flexible bands of fibrous tissue connecting together articular extremities of bones. They are pliant, tough, and inextensile.
Annotation: coordinate with site; joint ligaments = LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR
Allowable Qualifiers: AB abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
BS blood supply
CH chemistry
CY cytology
DE drug effects
DG diagnostic imaging
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
IM immunology
IN injuries
IR innervation
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
SU surgery
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
DeCS ID: 8198
Unique ID: D008022
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2019/06/17
Ligaments - Preferred
Concept UI M0012506
Scope note Shiny, flexible bands of fibrous tissue connecting together articular extremities of bones. They are pliant, tough, and inextensile.
Preferred term Ligaments
Entry term(s) Ligament
Interosseal Ligament - Narrower
Concept UI M000649203
Preferred term Interosseal Ligament
Entry term(s) Interosseal Ligaments
Interosseous Ligament
Interosseous Ligaments
Ligament, Interosseal
Ligament, Interosseous



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