tendon

See also tendón

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle French tendon.

Noun

tendon (plural tendons)

1. (anatomy) A tough band of inelastic fibrous tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment.

Synonyms

• sinew

Derived terms

• tendonitis
• Achilles’ tendon

Translations

tough band of inelastic fibrous tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment

English: Middle English: sinewe Old English: sinu, seono Arabic: وتر (ar) (wátar) m. Armenian: ջիլ (hy) (ǰil) Belarusian: сухажылле (be) (suxažýlle) n. Bulgarian: сухожилие (bg) (suxožílie) n. Catalan: tendó (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 肌腱 (zh) (jījiàn), 腱 (zh) (jiàn) Czech: šlacha (cs) f. Dutch: pees (nl) c. Esperanto: tendeno Finnish: jänne (fi) French: tendon (fr) German: Sehne (de) f. Greek: τένοντας (el) (ténondas) m., νεύρο (el) (nevro) n. Hungarian: ín (hu) Icelandic: sin (is) f. Italian: tendine (it) m. Japanese: 腱 (ja) (けん, ken), 筋 (ja) (すじ, suji)

Korean: 심줄 (ko) (simjul), 힘줄 (ko) (himjul), 건 (ko) (geon) (腱 (ko)) Kriol: jinuj Luxembourgish: Fies (lb) f. Norwegian: Bokmål: sene (nb) m. Nynorsk: sene (nn) f. Persian: تاندون (fa) (tândon) Polish: ścięgno (pl) Portuguese: tendão (pt) m. Quechua: bunelan Russian: сухожилие (ru) (suxožílije) n., жила (ru) (žíla) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тѐтива (sh) f. Roman: tètiva (sh) f. Spanish: tendón (es) m. Swedish: sena (sv) c. Turkish: kiriş (tr), tendon (tr) Ukrainian: сухожилля (uk) (suxožýllja) n. Vietnamese: gân (vi) (腱 (vi)) Volapük: kordül (vo)

See also

• ligament

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Esperanto

Noun

tendon

1. accusative singular of tendo

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French

Etymology

tend +‎ -on

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɑ̃.dɔ̃/, SAMPA: /tA~.dO~/

Noun

tendon m. (plural tendons)

1. tendon

Related terms

• tendineux
• tendinite

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Turkish

Etymology

From French tendon.

Noun

tendon

1. (anatomy) tendon

Synonyms

• kiriş