endotenon

English

Etymology

endo- + Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “tendon”)

Noun

endotenon

1. (anatomy) The fine connective tissue between the strands of a tendon.
   • 1916, Leo Mayer, “The physiological method of tendon transplantation”, in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, volume 22, page 475:

     In the later cases, the transplanted tendon showed a slight hypertrophy of the endotenon and of the blood-vessels (Fig. 2) and was slightly softer than the normal; otherwise no changes were noted.

Coordinate terms

• epitenon
• paratenon

Anagrams

• neotendon