Hamstring vs Dislocate - What's the difference?
hamstring | dislocate |
(anatomy) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
(informal) The biceps femoris muscle.
* 2010', Adam Garett, "Fried Hams", ''Reps!'' ' 17 :23
To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
* So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home. -
to put something out of its usual place
(medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint
* {{quote-book
, year= a1420
, year_published= 1894
, author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056
, by= (Lanfranc of Milan)
, title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie."
, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63
, original=
, chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone
, section=
, isbn= 1163911380
, edition=
, publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co
, location= London
, editor= Robert von Fleischhacker
, volume=
, page= 63
, passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate , til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
}}
* Bill dislocated his shoulder in the fall.
As verbs the difference between hamstring and dislocate
is that hamstring is to lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable while dislocate is to put something out of its usual place.As a noun hamstring
is (anatomy) one of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.hamstring
English
Noun
(en noun)- Developing muscle around both sides of a joint (think biceps and triceps, abs and low back, quads and hamstrings ) should be one of your primary training considerations because strength on each side leads to lower injury rates.