tendon

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• The hamstring of a quadruped.
• A wire or bar used to strengthen prestressed concrete.

Origin

• Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tendō, from Ancient Greek τένων ("sinew, tendon"), modified by association with the verb tendō.