different between aponeurosis vs osseoaponeurotic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin aponeur?sis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ap.?.nj?????.s?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æp.?.n???o?.s?s/
• Rhymes: -??s?s

Noun

aponeurosis (plural aponeuroses)

1. (anatomy) A flattened pearly white fibrous membrane taking the place of a tendon that binds together and forms the terminations and attachments of muscles or connects them to other body parts like skin or bone.

Derived terms

• aponeurology
• aponeurotic

Translations

References

• “aponeurosis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “aponeurosis”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????????? (aponeúr?sis, “end of the muscle where it becomes tendinous”), from ????????????? (aponeuróomai, “to become tendinous”) +? -??? (-sis, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.po.neu??ro?.sis/, [äp?n?u???o?s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.po.neu??ro.sis/, [?p?n?u??r??s?is]

Noun

aponeur?sis f (genitive aponeur?sis); third declension (New Latin)

1. (anatomy) An aponeurosis.

Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

• aponeur?ticus (adjective)

Descendants

? English: aponeurosis

Spanish

Noun

aponeurosis f (plural aponeurosis)

1. (anatomy) aponeurosis

Related terms

• aponeurótico

Further reading

• “aponeurosis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From the Latin osseus (“bone”), and Ancient Greek ??? (apó, “from, away from”) plus ?????? (neûron, “sinew, tendon”), literally translated as "the end of the muscle where it becomes tendon".

Adjective

osseoaponeurotic (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Pertaining to an object composed of bone and aponeurosis; at the end of a muscle where it becomes tendon.