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Musculoskeletal System > Skeleton > Joints > Ligaments, Articular > Collateral Ligaments
Tissues > Connective Tissue > Ligaments > Ligaments, Articular > Collateral Ligaments
Musculoskeletal System > Ligaments > Ligaments, Articular > Collateral Ligaments

Preferred term

Collateral Ligaments  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Collateral Ligament
  • Ligament, Collateral
  • Ligaments, Collateral

Note

  • artic ligaments of extremities; coord IM with specific joint or bone (IM)

Scope note

  • A number of ligaments on either side of, and serving as a radius of movement of, a joint having a hingelike movement. They occur at the elbow, knee, wrist, metacarpo- and metatarsophalangeal, proximal interphalangeal, and distal interphalangeal joints of the hands and feet. (Stedman, 25th ed)

History note

  • 94

In other languages

  • sivusiteet

    Finnish

  • kollateraaliligamentit
  • kollateraaliligamentti
  • ligamentum collaterale
  • polven kollateraaliligamentit
  • polven kollateraaliligamentti
  • polven sivuside
  • polven sivusiteet
  • sivuligamentit
  • sivuligamentti
  • sivuside
  • Kollateralligament

    Swedish

  • Lateralligament
  • Ligamentum collaterale

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017885

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