tendon
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
Definition of tendon
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.
“I hear a wrenching sound of tendons stretching and testing their anchors on the bone.”
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noun
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A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.
“I hear a wrenching sound of tendons stretching and testing their anchors on the bone.”
- The hamstring of a quadruped.
- A wire or bar used to strengthen prestressed concrete.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tendō, from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), modified by association with the verb tendō (“to stretch”). Compare Middle English thenoun.
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