OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12674

tendon

/ˈtɛn.dən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
tendón
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.
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