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Ligament vs Meniscus - What's the difference?

ligament | meniscus |

In anatomy|lang=en terms the difference between ligament and meniscus

is that ligament is (anatomy) a band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones while meniscus is (anatomy) either of two parts of the human knee that provide structural integrity to the knee when it undergoes tension and torsion.

As nouns the difference between ligament and meniscus

is that ligament is (anatomy) a band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones while meniscus is a crescent moon, or an object shaped like it.

ligament

English

(wikipedia ligament)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (anatomy) A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.

    • See also

    *Tendon

    Derived terms

    * ligamental * ligamentary * ligamentous

    meniscus

    English

    (wikipedia meniscus)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A crescent moon, or an object shaped like it.
  • *1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 19:
  • *:He opened wide both casements; they gave on a parking place four floors below; the thin meniscus overhead was too wan to illumine the roofs of the houses descending toward the invisible lake [...].
  • (optics) A lens which is convex on one side and concave on the other, being crescent-shaped in cross-section.
  • The curved surface of liquids in tubes, whether concave or convex, caused by the surface tension of the liquid.
  • (anatomy) Either of two parts of the human knee that provide structural integrity to the knee when it undergoes tension and torsion.

    • See also

    *lunette