Tendon

['tendən] or ['tɛndən]

Definition

(noun.) a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment.

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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.

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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.

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