elastic ligament

The elastic ligament allows a far greater range of vocalization, including roaring and coughing.

They also had elastic ligaments between the toe bones; this gave them more spring and speed compared to modern kangaroos.

Bivalves are molluscs with a body compressed between two usually similar shell valves joined by an elastic ligament.

Elastin is also very important in the lungs, elastic ligaments, the skin, and the bladder, elastic cartilage.

The protrusion of the jaw is assisted by two pairs of elastic ligaments associated with the mandibular joint.

In tigers, leopards and lions, the hyoid bone of the larynx is joined to the base of the skull by an elastic ligament.

Sections not being squeezed by the heart muscle are expanded either by elastic ligaments or by small muscles, in either case connecting the heart to the body wall.

The valves are held closed by powerful adductor muscles which work in opposition to an elastic ligament that lies just behind the umbones and which tends to open the valves.

Many texts, though, describe the 'ciliary muscles' (which seem more likely to be just elastic ligaments and not under any form of nervous control) as pulling the lens taut to focus at close range.

The terminal phalanx, with the claw attached, folds back in the forefoot into a sheath by the outer side of the middle phalanx of the digit, and is retained in this position when at rest by a strong elastic ligament.

Paddywhack (also spelt Paddywack) or Nuchal ligament/Ligamentum nuchae, is a strong elastic ligament or tendon in the midline of the neck of sheep or cattle which relieves the animal of the weight of its head.

For the same reason, the rami of the lower jaw, which consist of dentary, splenial, angular, and articular elements, with the addition of a coronoid in the boas and a few other small families, are connected at the symphysis by a very extensible elastic ligament.