tendon
43
3.7
- noun
- /ˈtɛndən/
:
tendón
- Physical therapy focused on strengthening the tendon that connected his calf muscle to the bone.
- patellar tendon
- tendons and ligaments
- tendon reflex
Gersh, show me that all of your muscles and tendons are connected.
- Gersh, show me that all of your muscles and tendons are connected.
- They are connective tissue like tendons and ligaments.
- Jelly, with his legs swinging, held onto his body by muscles, tendons and skin.
- It's sits above connected by a tendon.
- So your muscles clearly can get stronger, but even your ligaments and tendons can get stronger.
- So that's not the Achilles is your Achilles heel is the little tendon at the back of your heel, Right.
- I had shooting pains for a long time, but I always thought it was ligaments and tendons that I'd strained earlier.
- That is, of course the ligaments and tendons are involved in the movements and but do ligaments and tendons themselves grow and or get stronger?
- If you get injured and you are not allowing your tendons to keep up, then overall injury over time.
- He's like pulling on my, like ligaments and tendons and stuff, messing with stuff.
- And then just want to make sure we don't see any tendons here.
- So what that includes is bones, tendons, ligaments, muscle, out of post tissue.
Examples
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The men are moving, coming out of their crouches, blood pumping, tendons stretched in the soft, moist air.
Fiction book (1992) -
It feels like somebody's yanking on the tendons behind my eyes.
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During practice a few days later, I pulled an Achilles tendon and never again broke the tape.
Fiction book (1997) -
I think she nicked a tendon.
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You know, when you cut too deep, you cut the tendons... ...finger movement goes out the window.
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The vet thinks the tendon's stronger now than before the injury.
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Any strenuous activity on the biceps tendon will enhance it as well.
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Gersh, show me that all of your muscles and tendons are connected.
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Still holding its back, I saw the tendons in my wrist swollen like wires.
Fiction book (1998) -
And then there's your Achilles tendon and there's the back of your foot.
Synonyms
11
7.1
A strong band of tissue that joins muscle to bone
Compounds
- Specialized
4
3.4
A strong band at the back of the ankle that joins the calf muscles to the heel bone
- Specialized
A strong band at the back of the knee that joins thigh muscles to the leg bone
A strong cord at the back of the ankle that connects the calf muscles to the heel bone
How Vascular
387
2.3
- Specialized
67
5.8
- Specialized
1
6.0
43
3.7
- Specialized
33
4.3
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tendon The word tendon comes from the old Latin verb tendere, which means 'to stretch', and it shares that root with words like tension. So think of a tendon as a strong, tight cord that stretches and pulls a muscle to a bone, which is exactly what tendons do.