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noun

Anatomy. a cord or band of dense, tough, inelastic, white, fibrous tissue, serving to connect a muscle with a bone or part; sinew.

a reinforcing strand in prestressed concrete.

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Origin:
1535–45; < Medieval Latin tendōn- (stem of tendō) < Greek ténōn sinew (spelling with -d- by association with Latin tendere to stretch)

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a series of paired nerves that originate in the spinal cord and emerge, branching out to the region of the neck, trunk, or limbs

a soft, fatty, vascular tissue in the interior cavities of bones that is a major site of blood cell production

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Physical therapy that stretches and strengthens the muscle and tendon is essential.

And he noticed that natural construction tends to favor sinewy materials such as wood, muscle, and tendon.

Golgi tendon organs may become inhibited and muscles spindles can become.

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Physical therapy that stretches and strengthens the muscle and tendon is essential.

And he noticed that natural construction tends to favor sinewy materials such as wood, muscle, and tendon.

Golgi tendon organs may become inhibited and muscles spindles can become.

Then, they'll put a screw in alongside the tendon into that hole to lock it in place".

There may be a partial tear of the tendon fibers, which.

They also can cause liver problems and tendon ruptures.

The injuries were nothing serious, merely a strain, a cramp and some tendon wear-and-tear.

Modano suffered a severed tendon and nerve damage in his hand and has undergone reconstructive surgery.

Another thing to my advantage, was that the tendon that controls the big toe was secured to a bone in the end of my foot.

Achilles' tendon problems among runners and knee injuries among skiers.

If pain continues, the ruptured tendon will require a cast and perhaps surgery, called tendon transfer.

In a short outpatient procedure, surgeons replace an elbow ligament with a tendon from elsewhere in the body.

The tendon came cleanly off the elbow, and the muscle didn't tear in half.

The next step involved cleaning off the bits of tendon and fat that remained on bone.

Rotator cuff repair is a type of surgery to repair a torn tendon in the shoulder.

Your child's surgeon may make the tendon around the foot longer or shorter.

But he adamantly refused to go into the details of how he severed a tendon in his right pinky.

Because of the swelling, the tendon balloons from its normal flat shape.

Fat and bone marrow contain stem cells that might grow into joint or tendon if they were placed in the right environment.

Plaintiffs around the country contended that they suffered tendon injuries upon taking the antibiotic.

Sometimes, a person may need surgery to release the tendon or to cut the nerve-muscle pathway.

If you've got tendinitis or sprained a muscle or tendon by doing too much, don't go right back to exercising at the same.

Montana tore a tendon in the right elbow before the start of the season and faces possible season-ending surgery.

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World English Dictionary

tendon (ˈtɛndən)

—n
	a cord or band of white inelastic collagenous tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone or some other part; sinew

[C16: from Medieval Latin tendō, from Latin tendere to stretch; related to Greek tenōn sinew]

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Word Origin & History

tendon

1540s, from M.L. tendonem (nom. tendo), altered (by influence of L. tendere "to stretch") of L.L. tenon, from Gk. tenon (gen. tenontos) "tendon, sinew," from teinein "to stretch" (see tenet).

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Medical Dictionary

tendon ten·don (těn'dən)
n.
A band of tough, inelastic fibrous tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and consists of rows of elongated cells, minimal ground substance, and densely arranged, almost parallel, bundles of collageneous fibers.

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Science Dictionary

tendon (těn'dən) Pronunciation Key
A band of tough, fibrous, inelastic tissue that connects a muscle to a bone. Tendons are made chiefly of collagen.

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tendon definition

A tough band of fibrous connective tissue that connects muscles to bones.

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"When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard of their race, and are not deficient in girth also, we are amazed at the immense sacrifice of thews and sinews. What! these proportions, these bones,—and this their work! Hands which could have felled an ox have hewed this fragile matter which would not have tasked a lady's fingers! Can this be a stalwart man's work, who has a marrow in his back and a tendon Achilles in his heel?"

-Henry David Thoreau

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