different between flexor vs tendon

English

Alternative forms

• flector (dated)

Etymology

From New Latin flexor, agent noun of flect? (“I bend”)

Noun

flexor (plural flexors)

1. A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
   • 2004, Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual

     Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings, picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle groups.

Translations

See also

• biceps
• extensor

Spanish

Adjective

flexor (feminine flexora, masculine plural flexores, feminine plural flexoras)

1. (anatomy) flexor

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tend?, from Ancient Greek ????? (tén?n, “sinew, tendon”), modified by association with the verb tend? (“to stretch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?n.d?n/

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

• tendonitis
• Achilles’ tendon

Translations

References

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

See also

• ligament

Anagrams

• Denton

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ten.don/

Noun

tendon

1. accusative singular of tendo

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tend?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

tendon m (plural tendons)

1. tendon

Related terms

• tendineux
• tendinite

Further reading

• “tendon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ten?don/

Noun

tendon n (plural tendoane)

1. (anatomy) tendon

Declension

Derived terms

• tendonul lui Ahile

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?n?d?n/

Noun

tendon (definite accusative tendonu, plural tendonlar)

1. (anatomy) tendon

Synonyms

• kiri?