Tendon
['tendən] or ['tɛndən]
Definition
(noun.) a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment.
Edited by Kathleen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sinew.
Edited by Fred
Definition
n. the white fibrous tissue reaching from the end of a muscle to bone or some other structure which is to serve as a fixed attachment for it or which it is intended to move—funicular as the long tendon of the biceps muscle of the arm; fascicular as the short tendon of that muscle and as most tendons generally; aponeurotic tendinous expansions as the tendons of the abdominal muscles—L. Ten′do:—pl. Ten′dines.—adj. Ten′dinous consisting of containing or resembling tendons: full of tendons: sinewy.—ns. Tenog′raphy the description of tendons; Tenol′ogy that part of anatomy which relates to tendons; Tenot′omy the surgical operation of dividing a tendon.
Checker: Mimi
Examples
- It struck me that so astute a man as Straker would not undertake this delicate tendon-nicking without a little practice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It must suffice to say, it started with the harp, in its simplest form, composed of a frame with animal tendons stretched tight thereon and twanged by the fingers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- One leg was gone and the other was held by tendons and part of the trouser and the stump twitched and jerked as though it were not connected. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He grinned at her, a cracked, stiff, too-tightened-facial-tendoned grin. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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