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the cable that turns muscle's mumbling into the body's actual command
means A tough, fibrous band of tissue that connects muscle to bone, transmitting the force of contraction so the bone actually moves.
from From Latin 'tendo, tendinis,' itself tied to 'tendere,' to stretch or strain — the same straining root behind 'tension' and 'tend.' Medieval Latin anatomists likely shaped it under the influence of Greek 'tenon' (sinew), a cousin from the same Indo-European stretching family. So a tendon is, quite literally, the body's stretched thing.
- tensile strength
- stronger than steel by weight
- slow healing
- poor blood supply means months of repair
- achilles
- thickest tendon, named after a fatal flaw
- energy storage
- acts like a spring, recycling motion
- no muscle
- connects muscle to bone, contracts nothing
achilles tendon — connects calf muscle to heel bone in humans, most commonly injured tendon
patellar tendon — connects quadriceps to shinbone, critical for jumping and running in athletes
rotator cuff tendons — four tendons in shoulder (supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, subscapularis) that stabilize the joint