tendon

See also tendón

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle French tendon.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtɛndən/

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

  Egyptian Arabic: وتر (watar) m

• Armenian: ջիլ (hy) (ǰil)
• Belarusian: сухажылле (be) (suxažýlle) n
• Bulgarian: сухожилие (bg) (suxožílie) n
• Catalan: tendó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肌腱 (cmn) (jījiàn), 腱 (cmn) (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
• Latvian: cīpsla (lv) f, dzīsla (lv) f
• Luxembourgish: Fies (lb) f
• Macedonian: тетива (mk) (tetíva) 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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈten.don/

Noun

tendon

1. accusative singular of tendo

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French

Etymology

tend +‎ -on

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɑ̃.dɔ̃/, X-SAMPA: /tA~.dO~/
• Rhymes: -dɔ̃

Noun

tendon m (plural tendons)

1. tendon

Related terms

• tendineux
• tendinite

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Turkish

Etymology

From French tendon.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɛnˈdɔn/, X-SAMPA: /tEn"dOn/

Noun

tendon

1. (anatomy) tendon

Synonyms

• kiriş