: a tough cord or band of dense white fibrous connective tissue that unites a muscle with some other part (such as a bone) and transmits the force which the muscle exerts
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Freshman standout Dakorien Moore missed the team’s last four games with an undisclosed injury, and Evan Stewart hasn’t played all season since tearing his patellar tendon in June.
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Manny Navarro, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2025
Joseph Vasconcellos, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officer and a former border patrol agent for 13 years, testified that he had been stabbed and shot at, ruptured his Achilles tendon, and suffered nerve damage in his neck as a result of people resisting arrest.
—John Diedrich, jsonline.com, 16 Dec. 2025
Athletes with soft tissue injuries (damage to muscles, tendons, and ligaments) were especially affected.
—Ciara Lucas, SELF, 16 Dec. 2025
May Improve Muscle Health Collagen is a key component of muscles and connective tissues, such as tendons and ligaments.
—Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 15 Dec. 2025
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Manny Navarro, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2025
Joseph Vasconcellos, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officer and a former border patrol agent for 13 years, testified that he had been stabbed and shot at, ruptured his Achilles tendon, and suffered nerve damage in his neck as a result of people resisting arrest.
—John Diedrich, jsonline.com, 16 Dec. 2025
Athletes with soft tissue injuries (damage to muscles, tendons, and ligaments) were especially affected.
—Ciara Lucas, SELF, 16 Dec. 2025
May Improve Muscle Health Collagen is a key component of muscles and connective tissues, such as tendons and ligaments.
—Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 15 Dec. 2025
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“Tendon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tendon. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.
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tendon
noun
ten·don
ˈten-dən 
: a tough cord or band of dense white connective tissue that links a muscle to some other part (as a bone)
Medical Definition
tendon
noun
ten·don
ˈten-dən
: a tough cord or band of dense white fibrous connective tissue that unites a muscle with some other part, transmits the force which the muscle exerts, and is continuous with the connective-tissue epimysium and perimysium of the muscle and when inserted into a bone with the periosteum of the bone
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