Achilles tendon

See also: Achilles' tendon

English

explainer video about the human achilles tendon

Alternative forms

• Achilles' tendon, tendon of Achilles

Etymology

Calque of New Latin tendo Achillis, in reference to the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx. Its coinage has been attributed to Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyden in 1693, but the term is first attested in 1684.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈkɪliːz tɛndən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

Achilles tendon (plural Achilles tendons)

1. (anatomy) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, and inserted into the bone of the heel.
   • 2023 December 20, Sam Joseph, “Aaron Rodgers writes off this season as ‘lost year,’ but quarterback says he feels ‘I can play more years’ in NFL”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who ruptured his left Achilles tendon just four snaps into his New York Jets career, has written off this season as a “lost year,” though he feels he can “play more years” in the NFL.

Synonyms

• (anatomy): calcaneal tendon, tendo Achillis, tendo calcaneus

Derived terms

• Achilles tendon reflex time

Related terms

• Achilles jerk
• Achilles reflex

Translations

strong tendon in the calf of the leg

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: وَتَر أَخِيل m (watar ʔaḵīl), عُرْقُوب m (ʕurqūb)
• Armenian: աքիլեսյան ջիլ (akʻilesyan ǰil)
• Azerbaijani: Axilles vətəri
• Bulgarian: ахилесово сухожилие n (ahilesovo suhožilie)
• Burmese: ဖနောင့်ကြော (hpa.naung.krau:)
• Catalan: tendó d'Aquil·les
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跟腱 (zh) (gēnjiàn)

• Czech: Achillova šlacha (cs) f
• Danish: akillessene c
• Dutch: achillespees (nl) f
• Esperanto: aĥila tendeno
• Faroese: hælsina f, hælspong f
• Finnish: akillesjänne (fi)
• French: tendon d’Achille (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: achillessine

• Georgian: აქილევსის მყესი (akilevsis mq̇esi)
• German: Achillessehne (de) f
• Greek: αχίλλειος τένοντας (el) m (achílleios ténontas)
• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} pytasã

• Hungarian: Achilles-ín (hu)
• Icelandic: hásin (is) f
• Indonesian: tendon achilles
• Interlingua: tendon de Achilles
• Italian: tendine di Achille (it) m
• Japanese: アキレス腱 (ja) (アキレスけん, akiresu-ken)
• Khmer: សរសៃពួរកែង (sɑɑ say puə kaeŋ)
• Korean: 아킬레스건 (ko) (akilleseugeon)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: tendo calcaneus m, tendo Achillis m
• Latvian: Ahileja cīpsla f
• Lithuanian: kulninė sausgyslė f
• Macedonian: Ахилова тетива f (Ahilova tetiva)
• Malay: keting (ms), urat tumit
• Māori: iohere punga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: akillessene m or f

  Nynorsk: akillessen f, akillessene f

• Polish: ścięgno Achillesa (pl) n
• Portuguese: tendão de Aquiles m
• Romanian: tendonul lui Ahile n
• Russian: ахи́ллово сухожи́лие (ru) n (axíllovo suxožílije), пя́точное сухожи́лие n (pjátočnoje suxožílije)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: šušmesuotna

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ахилова тетива f

  Latin: Ahilova tetiva f

• Slovak: Achillova šľacha f
• Spanish: tendón aquíleo m, tendón de Aquiles m, tendón calcáneo m
• Swedish: hälsena (sv) c, akillessena (sv)
• Tagalog: litid ni Akiles, litid ni Aquiles
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tupinambá: pytasama
• Turkish: Aşil tendonu

  Ottoman Turkish: اگریجه (eğrice), عرقوب (ʿurkub), اوكچه سڭیری (ökçe siñiri), صاچ اوزادان (saç uzadan)

• Ukrainian: ахіллове сухожилля n (axillove suxožyllja), п'яткове сухожилля n (pʺjatkove suxožyllja)
• Vietnamese: gân gót chân, gân Achilles, gân A-sin
• Welsh: gweyllen y ffêr f

Further reading

• Achilles tendon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia