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Cruciate ligamentCruciate ligaments (from the Latin for "cross") are found in several parts of the body. These include:
Additional recommended knowledgeEtymologyIn Classical Latin the verb cruciare means "to torture". But by the time in the Late Latin period when Latin medical terminology was being established, this old meaning of cruciare seems to have fallen out of use in common speech, and the word was re-invented with the meaning "arrange in cross shape", as in each knee the two cruciate ligaments are arranged like a letter X. |
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