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Vinony

tendon

noun

  1. Japanese dish consisting of tempura on a bowl of rice
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtɛn.dən/

noun

Etymology: 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.

  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.