tendon

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.
    — I hear a wrenching sound of tendons stretching and testing their anchors on the bone.
  2. The hamstring of a quadruped.
  3. A wire or bar used to strengthen prestressed concrete.

词形变化

tendons plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Achilles tendon Achilles’ tendon calcaneal tendon endotendon intertendon intratendon mesotendon midtendon musculotendon neotendon paratendon peritendon quadriceps tendon subtendon tendinopathy tendonectomy tendonitis tendon of Achilles tendony
相关词
ligament

词源

Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tendō, from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), modified by association with the verb tendō (“to stretch”). Compare Middle English thenoun.
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