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Ligament: Medial collateral ligament
Knee diagram.svg
Diagram of the knee. (Medial collateral ligament labeled at center right.)
Latin ligamentum collaterale tibiale
Gray's subject #93 341
From medial condyle of femur
To medial condyle of tibia
MeSH A02.513.514.162.600
Dorlands/Elsevier l_09/12491979


The medial collateral ligament (often known as the tibial collateral ligament, or abbreviated to MCL) is one of the four major ligaments of the knee.

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