Tendon

Definition: Tendon

Tendon

Noun

1. A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tendon" was first used: 1543. (references)

Etymology: Tendon \Ten"don\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression tendere to stretch, extend. See Tend to move.]. (Websters 1913)

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Tendon

Connection

Bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; riband, ribbon, rope, guy, cable, line, halser, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string; (filament).

Crosswords: Tendon

French (hamstring, sinew, tendon), Romanian (sinew, tendon), Turkish (tendon).

Books

• Occupational therapy practice guidelines for tendon injuries (reference)

• Symposium on Tendon Surgery in the Hand, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March, 1974 : [papers] (reference)

• Tendon and Ligament Healing: A New Approach Through Manual Therapy (reference)

• Tendon and Nerve Surgery in the Hand: A Third Decade (reference)

• Tendon Surgery in the Hand (reference)

  (more book examples)

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An adult black man is pictured here alone. He was diagnosed as having osteogenic sarcoma in his upper left arm. Surgeons performed a new procedure implanting a metal rod in place of the cancerous bone. Since muscle and tendon were saved, he is able to use his left arm. Surgeons could attempt this daring new technique since the cancer had not spread.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Pantoufle pour la réunion du tendon d'Achille.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Health

Other symptoms include loss of tendon reflexes, especially in the knees and ankles. (references)

Symptoms include tingling or numbness (beginning in the toes and fingers), weakness of the arms and legs, aching pain in the muscles, loss of deep tendon reflexes (areflexia), fatigue, and abnormal sensations. (references)

Symptoms may include hypertonicity (increased muscle tone), clonus (a series of rapid muscle contractions), exaggerated deep tendon reflexes, muscle spasms, scissoring (involuntary crossing of the legs), and fixed joints. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "tendon": achilles tendon ♦ Achilles' tendon ♦ break a tendon ♦ hamstring tendon ♦ steel tendon ♦ strain of a tendon ♦ strained tendon ♦ Tendon Injuries ♦ tendon of Achilles ♦ tendon of Zinn ♦ Tendon reflex ♦ tendon sheath ♦ Tendon Transfer. Additional references.

Beginning with "tendon": tendon-like, tendon-severing.

Ending with "tendon": deep-tendon.

Afrikaan

hakskeensening (Achilles' tendon), Achillespees (Achilles' tendon). (various references)

Albanian

tejzë (catgut, cord, sinew, thews), pjezë (ligament), gilcë (sinew). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وتر (bow, catgut, chord, cord, gut, nerve, sinew, snare, strain, string, tauten, tense, tension). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сухожилие (leader, ligament, nerve, sinew, string). (various references)

Chinese 

腱. (various references)

Czech

šlacha (sinew). (various references)

Danish

streng (bead, billet, bridle, cast strand, chorda, cord, fillet, funiculus, hank, slip, strand, string, tined chain), sene (chorda, cord, sinew, string), ligament (band, chorda, cord, ligament, string), chorda (chorda, cord, string). (various references)

Dutch

pees (hanging rope, rope, sinew, string). (various references)

Esperanto

tendeno (sinew, string). (various references)

Faeroese

strongur (cord, sinew, string), spong (sinew, string), sin (sinew, string). (various references)

Farsi 

پی(تش), وتر (Cord, Hypotenuse, Nerve, Sinew), زردپی . (various references)

Finnish

jänne (chord, chord line, cord, nerve, sinew, string). (various references)

French

tendon. (various references)

Frisian

sine (nerve, sinew, string). (various references)

German

Sehne (chord, sinew, string), Flechse (sinew, string). (various references)

Greek 

τένων (sinew), τένοντασ (sinew), τένοντας. (various references)

Hebrew 

�'י�" (nerve, penis, sinew, vein). (various references)

Hungarian

ín (leader, nerve, sinew). (various references)

Indonesian

urat daging. (various references)

Italian

tendine (sinew). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

腱 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

け�" (and, authority, bayonet, blade, bond, case, certificate, circle, clock hand, concurrently, coupon, economy, emperor, health, heaven, in addition, item, matter, prefecture, range, sabre, sphere, stick-to-itiveness, sting, strength, sword, the right, ticket). (various references)

Korean 

심줄. (various references)

Manx

feh (nerve, sinew). (various references)

Pig Latin

endontay

Portuguese

tendão (nerve, sinew). (various references)

Romanian

tendon (sinew). (various references)

Russian 

сухожилие (sinew). (various references)

Scottish

faltan (a tendon). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tetiva (chord, hamstring, ligament, sinew, string), žila (ligament, lode, sinew). (various references)

Spanish

tendón (cord, sinew). (various references)

Swedish

sena (late, muscle, sinew, string). (various references)

Thai

เส้นเอ็นที่ยึ�"กล้ามเนื้อและกระ�"ูก. (various references)

Turkish

tendon, kiriş (balk, baulk, beam, bowstring, catgut, chord, girder, gut, joist, ligament, rafter, rib, sinew, span, string, stringcourse, Stringer, tendinous, tie, tie beam, timber, traverse, wire). (various references)

Ukranian 

сухожилля (nerve, sinew). (various references)

Welsh

gewyn (sinew). (various references)

1. sa. (various references)

nervus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tendon": tendonitis, tendonitises, tendons. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tendon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dendron, Endon, Gendron, Keidon, pendon, sendun, tanon, Tanton, Taynton, tedon, teldon, temon, tendant, tenden, tendint, tendion, tendo, tendoned, tendop, tendor, Tenko, tenol, tenon, tenox, tenson, Tinson, tondino, tondo, tondu, Toungoon, Wendon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: donne, nonet, noted, tenon, toned, tonne.

-2 letters: dent, done, dote, neon, node, none, note, tend, toed, tone.

-3 letters: den, doe, don, dot, end, eon, net, nod, not, ode, one, ted, ten, tod, toe, ton.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, en, et, ne, no, od, oe, on, to.

+1 letter: contend, donnert, endnote, intoned, tendons, tenoned, unnoted.

+2 letters: anointed, antinode, bonneted, cantoned, connoted, contends, denoting, deponent, dubonnet, endnotes, endpoint, indentor, indolent, lentando, nonrated, noontide, sonneted, unatoned, unstoned, unwonted, wantoned.

+3 letters: adornment, annotated, antinodes, asyndeton, bondstone, condiment, confident, connected, consented, contained, contemned, contended, contender, contented, continued, convented, dentition, deponents, detention, downtrend, dubonnets, endotoxin, endowment, endpoints, enthroned, incondite, indention, indentors, innovated, internode, inthroned, intonated, mentioned, nominated, noncredit, nondesert, nonsteady, nonsuited, noontides, notedness, outgunned, outmanned, outsinned, rendition, sandstone, sonnetted, tendinous, tensioned, uncounted, undertone, unjointed, unknotted, unmounted, unnoticed, unthroned, untrodden.

+4 letters: adornments, antimodern, antimonide, antipodean, asyndetons, bondstones, coincident, coinvented, condensate, condiments, confidante, confronted, contenders, contending, covenanted, definition, demounting, denegation, denominate, denotation, denotement, denouement, dentitions, denudation, despondent, detentions, dethroning, detonating, detonation, disconnect, discontent, disownment, dissention, distension, distention, downtowner, downtrends, emendation, endodontic, endotoxins, endowments, fountained, functioned, grindstone, indentions, indexation, indolently, inordinate, internodal, internodes, munitioned, nationwide, nondeviant, nonelected, nonsteroid, nonstudent, nontenured, ordainment, ornamented, outgrinned, outplanned, outspanned, pinpointed, portending, protending, pteranodon, reanointed, renditions, respondent, rotundness, sanctioned, sandstones, shotgunned, sphenodont, stringendo, tenderloin, tendonitis, tenpounder, unbonneted, unbuttoned, undercount, undertones, unfoldment, unsoundest, unwontedly, wonderment, wontedness.

+5 letters: abandonment, adjournment, antagonized, antimoderns, antimonides, antipodeans, benediction, coattending, codefendant, codependent, coextending, commandment, concentered, condensates, condimental, conditioned, conditioner, conductance, confidantes, confidently, connectedly, constrained, constringed, contentedly, contravened, contredanse, countermand, deamination, decantation, declination, decondition, definitions, delineation, denegations, denervation, denigration, denominated, denominates, denominator, denotations, denotements, denouements, denudations, designation, destination, detonations, disconnects, discontents, discontinue, disownments, dissentions, distensions, distentions, documenting, downtowners, downtrodden, emendations, encountered, endodontics, endodontist, endorsement, fecundation, goaltending, grindstones, heldentenor, impoundment, indentation, indexations, indigestion, indirection, indorsement, inventoried, jointedness, needlepoint, nonadaptive, nonadditive, nonadjacent, nonattached, nonattender, nondelegate, nondescript, nondeviants, nondiabetic, nondirected, nondomestic, nongraduate, nonidentity, noninfected, noninfested, nonresident, nonselected, nonsteroids, nonstudents, notednesses, opinionated, ordainments, outspending, pentahedron, pointedness, predominant, pteranodons, rallentando, recondition, reconnected, reenthroned, renominated, respondents, rhinestoned, stanchioned, tendencious, tendentious, tenderloins, tenebrionid, tenpounders, transponder, truncheoned, unaccounted, unannotated, uncaptioned, unconnected, uncontested, uncontrived, unconverted, undercounts, unfoldments, unmentioned, unmonitored, wonderments.

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