Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, having, or resembling a tendon.
- adjective Sinewy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a tendon; full of tendons; sinewy.
- Of or pertaining to tendons; forming or formed by a tendon; fascial; aponeurotic: as, tendinous tissue; a tendinous structure; the tendinous origin or insertion of a muscle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.
- adjective Full of tendons; sinewy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling a
tendon orsinew
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This constitutes what is known as tendinous quittor in its worst form, for more often than not there is associated with it inflammation of the navicular bursa, caries of the bones, or arthritis of the pedal articulation.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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It is termed the tendinous arch or white line of the pelvic fascia, and marks the line of attachment of the special fascia (pars endopelvina fasciæ pelvis) which is associated with the pelvic viscera.
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Moving back to the morphology of the rorqual lower jaw, a tall, well-developed coronoid process – way larger than that of any other mysticete – projects from each jaw bone and forms the attachment site for a tendinous part of the temporalis muscle, termed the frontomandibular stay.
From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II Darren Naish 2006
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Moving back to the morphology of the rorqual lower jaw, a tall, well-developed coronoid process – way larger than that of any other mysticete – projects from each jaw bone and forms the attachment site for a tendinous part of the temporalis muscle, termed the frontomandibular stay.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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As Eliot over at Buzzfeed so astutely points out: the definition of gristle is “tough cartilaginous, tendinous, or fibrous matter especially in table meats.”
Guy Ritchie Compares Madonna To A Piece Of Gristle | Best Week Ever 2008
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Thus, when the fingers are bent, the fleshy parts of the flexors of the fingers, placed in the arm, contract, in virtue of their peculiar endowment as muscles; and pulling the tendinous cords, connected with their ends, cause them to pull down the bones of the fingers towards the palm.
Essays 2007
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These symptoms also occur in the site of the diaphragm, but much less frequently; for the diaphragm is a broad, expanded, and resisting substance, of a nervous (tendinous?) and strong nature, and therefore less susceptible of pain; and yet pains and chronic abscesses do occur about it.
On Ancient Medicine 2007
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But as if this vast local power in the tendinous tail were not enough, the whole bulk of the leviathan is knit over with a warp and woof of muscular fibres and filaments, which passing on either side the loins and running down into the flukes, insensibly blend with them, and largely contribute to their might; so that in the tail the confluent measureless force of the whole whale seems concentrated to a point.
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At the middle of the forehead horizontally subdivide this upper quoin, and then you have two almost equal parts, which before were naturally divided by an internal wall of a thick tendinous substance.
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Tash fell in, the case had been nearly emptied of its lighter contents, leaving little but the dense tendinous wall of the well — a double welded, hammered substance, as I have before said, much heavier than the sea water, and a lump of which sinks in it like lead almost.
yarb commented on the word tendinous
...an internal wall of a thick tendinous substance.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 77
July 26, 2008