Definitions for tendons

tendons ten·don

Spelling: [ten-duh n]
IPA: /ˈtɛn dən/

Tendons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in tendons (dennost).

Definitions for tendons

noun

  1. Anatomy. a cord or band of dense, tough, inelastic, white, fibrous tissue, serving to connect a muscle with a bone or part; sinew.
  2. a reinforcing strand in prestressed concrete.

Origin of tendons

1535-45; Medieval Latin tendōn- (stem of tendō) Greek ténōn sinew (spelling with -d- by association with Latin tendere to stretch)

Examples for tendons

And that does not count the human tissue that gets moved around—faces, tendons, bones, skin.

What bones and tendons do you use when you stand on tip-toe?

Every time he touched the foot-brake, she could feel the strain in the tendons of her own ankle.

The tendons of his neck stood out white and rigid like whip-cords.

In small birds it is not necessary to split ball of foot nor to remove these tendons.

Wash and singe the fowl: take off the head and legs, and remove the tendons.

I jog until my Achilles tendons burn and replace meals with diet shakes that give me gas.

The tendons of your legs have a drawing sensation, and feel as if too short.

So Ellroy sliced away the fat, and many of the tendons, too.

tendons had been pulled, muscles strained from the force of the ejection.

Word Value for tendons
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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