What is the difference between ligament and bone?
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What is the four difference between tendons and ligaments?
Definition: Tendon connects muscles to bone, and are present at the end of skeletal muscles. These are the fibrous connective tissue non-elastic.
Ligaments connect one bone to another bone and so are found in joints. These are also the kind of connective tissue which is stronger and flexible and helps in movements of the bones.
Nature: Tendons are inelastic and tough.
Ligaments are elastic and strong.
Fibres: Fibres are present as compact parallel bundles.
Fibres are compactly packed and not arranged in parallel bundles.
Fibroblasts: In tendon, fibroblasts lie in continuous rows.
In ligaments, fibroblasts are scattered.
Formed of: Tendons are made of white fibrous connective tissue.
Ligaments are made of yellow fibrous connective tissue.
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