Achilles tendon

See also: Achilles' tendon

English

Alternative forms

• Achilles' tendon
• tendon of Achilles

Etymology

Calque of New Latin Achillis tendo, a term devised by the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyden in 1693 in reference to the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

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.

Synonyms

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

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: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: tendó d'Aquil·les
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跟腱 (zh) (gēnjiàn)

• Czech: Achillova šlacha f
• Danish: akillessene c
• Dutch: achillespees (nl) f
• Finnish: akillesjänne (fi)
• French: tendon d’Achille (fr) m
• Georgian: აქილევსის მყესი (akilevsis mq̇esi)
• German: Achillessehne (de) f
• Greek: αχίλλειος τένοντας (el) m (achílleios ténontas)
• Guaraní: 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 (あきれすけん, akiresu-ken)
• Khmer: សរសៃពួរកែង (sɑɑ say puə kaeŋ)
• Korean: 아킬레스건 (ko) (akilleseugeon)
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• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: tendo calcaneus m, tendo Achillis m
• Latvian: Ahileja cīpsla f
• Lithuanian: kulninė sausgyslė f
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: 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)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ахилова тетива f

  Roman: 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
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: gweyllen y ffêr f

See also

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