Question

What will happen if ligaments are cut or broken?
A. Bones will move freely at joints
B. No movement at joint
C. Bone will become unfixed
D. Bone will become fixed

Answer 1

Ligaments are the tissues that connect one bone to the other bone.

Complete Answer:
Ligaments: They are the fibrous connective tissues. Ligaments are also known as articular ligament, articular laura, fibrous ligament or true ligament.
- They are the tough fibrous bands of connective tissue.
- They support the internal organs.
- A ligament is composed of spindle shaped cells called fibrocytes.

Ligaments are of two types –
(I) White ligament
(II) Yellow ligament.

(I) White ligament: These types of ligaments are rich in collagenous fibres, which are inelastic.
(II) Yellow ligaments: Yellow ligaments are rich in elastic fibres. They are quite tough even though they allow elastic movements.
- If the ligaments are cut or broken the bone will become unfixed because ligaments connect bone to bone.

Hence, option C is the right answer.

Note: Ligaments allow the movement but upto a limit. They have a lot of strong collagen fibres in them.