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Musculoskeletal System > Skeleton > Joints > Ligaments, Articular > Anterior Cruciate Ligament
Tissues > Connective Tissue > Ligaments > Ligaments, Articular > Anterior Cruciate Ligament
Musculoskeletal System > Ligaments > Ligaments, Articular > Anterior Cruciate Ligament

Preferred term

Anterior Cruciate Ligament  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Anterior Cruciate Ligaments
  • Cruciate Ligament, Anterior
  • Cruciate Ligaments, Anterior
  • Ligament, Anterior Cruciate
  • Ligaments, Anterior Cruciate

Note

  • /surg: consider also ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION

Scope note

  • A strong ligament of the knee that originates from the posteromedial portion of the lateral condyle of the femur, passes anteriorly and inferiorly between the condyles, and attaches to the depression in front of the intercondylar eminence of the tibia.

History note

  • 91

In other languages

  • eturistiside

    Finnish

  • lig. cruc. ant.
  • lig. cruciatum ant.
  • lig. cruciatum anterius
  • ligamentum cruciatum anterius
  • polven eturistiside
  • Främre korsband

    Swedish

  • ACL
  • Korsband, främre

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016118

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