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What (who) is hamstring$33606$ - definition
THREE POSTERIOR THIGH MUSCLES
Hamstrings; Hamstring group; Hamstring muscles; Hamstring tendon
hamstring
v. a.
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hamstring
(hamstrings, hamstringing, hamstrung)
1.
A hamstring is a length of tissue or tendon behind your knee which joins the muscles of your thigh to the bones of your lower leg.
Webster has not played since suffering a hamstring injury in the opening game.
N-COUNT
2.
If you hamstring someone, you make it very difficult for them to take any action.
If he becomes the major opposition leader, he could hamstring a conservative-led coalition.
VERB: V n
Hamstring
·noun 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.
II. Hamstring ·vt To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to Hough; hence, to cripple; to Incapacitate; to Disable.
Wikipedia
Hamstring
In human anatomy, a hamstring () is any one of the three posterior thigh muscles in between the hip and the knee (from medial to lateral: semimembranosus, semitendinosus and biceps femoris). The hamstrings are susceptible to injury. In quadrupeds, the hamstring is the single large tendon found behind the knee or comparable area.
