tendon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a strong band of fibrous connective tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone and transmits the muscle's force

   The runner strained a tendon behind her ankle during training.

2. 2
   noun

   a steel cable, wire, or bar placed under tension to strengthen prestressed concrete

   Each tendon was tightened before the bridge deck was put under load.

Common collocations

• hamstring tendon Noun + noun

Borrowed from French tendon, associated with tendre ("to stretch"), from Latin tendere. The anatomical form and sense may also reflect Greek tenon ("sinew, tendon"); both families evoke something stretched taut.

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