tennis elbow
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- noun
- /ˈtɛnɪs ˈɛlboʊ/
- Specialized
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codo de tenista
- Tennis elbow is characterized by soreness and pain on the outer edge of the elbow, on the lateral side away from your body.
- get tennis elbow
- develop tennis elbow
Examples
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I would indeed love to update my blog more often, but I'm presently suffering from tennis elbow (a painful condition worsened by use on my computer), and so at the moment, I am having to cut down on typing.
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In a study of 113 patients with tennis elbow, overexertion was the common denominator in each.
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- I have tennis elbow from the other day.
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I tried bringing my laptop closer, which helped, but I still felt a case of tennis elbow coming on.
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Severe tennis elbow instantly improved after treatment.
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Many amateur players develop tennis elbow after long practice sessions without proper technique.
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She was diagnosed with tennis elbow due to years of playing squash and needed physical therapy.
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If you work long hours at a computer, you might experience symptoms similar to tennis elbow.
Synonyms
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Pain and swelling in a tendon, often after using it too much
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Pain and swelling in a tendon that makes movement hard
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Pain and swelling near the bony part of the elbow from repeated arm use
Pain at the outer elbow from overusing the forearm muscles, often called tennis elbow
A painful swelling of the tendon on the outside of the elbow caused by using the forearm muscles too much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound literally links 'tennis' + 'elbow', so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to an elbow problem related to playing tennis or repetitive racket movements; the medical sense (tendon inflammation/pain) is a predictable extension of that. Many languages use the same transparent compound (e.g., 'codo de tenista', 'Tennisarm'), so the relation is compositionally clear to B1 learners.
Etymology
Tennis elbow comes from a simple image: tennis players who used their racket a lot sometimes felt pain on the outside of the elbow. So the name stuck, and today tennis elbow means 'pain at the outer elbow' from using the arm too much.