tendon
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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How to use tendon in a sentence
For example, they point out, simple rules about training load are doomed to failure because increasing the stress on a tissue like a tendon by just ten percent will cause it to fail 50 percent earlier.
Give your mind, bones, tendons, and ligaments the time they need to get ready to go longer distances—and choose goals that are motivating to you but work on building distance incrementally.
Your top speed can win or lose races, and can also serve as an indirect marker of muscle and tendon properties that affect how efficiently you run even at lower speeds.
The MRI scan many people receive at the hospital is usually an anatomical MRI scan, providing high-resolution 3-D images of muscle, tendon, and bone tissue, able to highlight potential injuries like tendon tears or diseases like cancer.
Righty Stephen Strasburg is now smoothing out his mechanics after rupturing the plantaris tendon in his left leg.
Juan Soto leaves Nationals’ exhibition early with right calf cramp | Jesse Dougherty | March 26, 2021 | Washington Post
A second doctor suggested it might be possible to extend his Achilles tendon.
Adult actresses are prone to internal tears the way an athlete might be at risk for injuring a tendon.
A routine ankle surgery on a painful tendon led to complications including a build-up of fluid in her left leg.
Is It Possible to Become Un-Paralyzed? Monique van der Vorst Says It Happened to Her | Sarah J. Robbins | December 18, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTOne particularly disastrous game sent Gore from the gym to the hospital with a torn Achilles tendon.
Men who habitually exercise every muscle and tendon acquire that graceful carriage which belongs to the military gymnast.
The Chequers | James RuncimanThe tendon is attached almost vertically on the temporal process.
Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves | Robert L. MerzThe lateral tendon of M. pseudotemporalis superficialis converges with the aponeurosis.
Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves | Robert L. MerzThe tendon of origin is actually one with the ventral aponeurosis of pars profundus, which is situated in a horizontal plane.
Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves | Robert L. MerzShe planted her foot on the swell of the neck tendon, and in seven leaps she made it to the lobe of the ear.
The Jewels of Aptor | Samuel R. Delany
British Dictionary definitions for tendon
/ (ˈtɛndən) /
a cord or band of white inelastic collagenous tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone or some other part; sinew
Origin of tendon
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for tendon
[ tĕn′dən ]
A band of tough, fibrous, inelastic tissue that connects a muscle to a bone. Tendons are made chiefly of collagen.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Cultural definitions for tendon
A tough band of fibrous connective tissue that connects muscles to bones.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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