Question

Diff. between tendon and ligament

Answer 1

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tendon
- tendon joins the skeletal muscle to a bone.
- it is tough and inelastic.
- fibroblasts lie in a continues row.

ligament 
- ligament joins the bone to another bone.
- it is strong but it is elastic.
- fibroblasts lie to scattered.


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Answer 2

Tendon :-

• It is the strong extensible attachment of a skeleton muscle to a bone.
• It contain thick parallel bundles of white collagen fibre.
• It is a non-elastic band.
• Fibroblasts lie in almost continuous row.

Ligament :-

• It is a band of dense connective fibre which connects a bone with another bone.
• It contains both white collagen and yellow elastic fibres running in different direction.
• It is elastic band.
• Fibroblasts lie scattered.