ligament organ

Definition

Dense regular connective tissue connecting two or more adjacent skeletal elements or supporting an organ.

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Sub-structures

• nonskeletal ligament
• skeletal ligament

Neighbouring structures

• cartilage organ
• membrane organ
• muscle organ
• neural tree organ

Identifiers

FMA

21496

UBERON

0000211

Wikidata

Q66513468