tendon
tendon
/ˈtendən/
a strong band of tissue in the body that joins a muscle to a bone
He had surgery for a torn tendon in his elbow.
Collocations
adjective
verb + tendon
tendon + noun
preposition
tendon in
Word Origin
late Middle English: from French or medieval Latin tendo(n-), translating Greek tenōn ‘sinew’, from teinein ‘to stretch’.
e.g.
Now, one guard was particularly ruthless. He cut the tendon in one of the gold thief's legs so he couldn't escape. 看守にもひでぇ奴がいてな 脱獄できないように金塊強奪犯の男は片足の筋を切られた (/yupeco/『ゴールデンカムイ』1話)