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語源

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 中期英語 thenoun.

発音

• IPA: /ˈtɛn.dən/

名詞

tendon (plural tendons)

1. (anatomy) 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.

   Synonym: sinew

   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 78:

     I hear a wrenching sound of tendons stretching and testing their anchors on the bone.

2. (biology) The hamstring of a quadruped.
3. (construction) A wire or bar used to strengthen prestressed concrete.

派生語

参考

• ligament

参照

• “tendon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “tendon”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• Denton