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‖ aponeurosis Phys.|-ˈəʊsɪs|
Pl. -es.
[L., a. Gr. ἀπονεύρωσις, f. ἀπονευρό-ειν to change into a tendon, f. ἀπό off, away + νεῦρον sinew.]
A white, shining, fibrous membrane, sometimes serving as the sheath of a muscle, sometimes forming the connexion between a muscle and a tendon.
1676in Phil. Trans. XI. 769 The lower [muscle]..arises from the vertebræ of the loyns, and ends in the same aponeurosis. 1804Abernethy Surg. Observ. 93, I removed the cyst from off the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle. 1873Mivart Elem. Anat. viii. 281 Muscles are..separated from each other by membranes termed aponeuroses. |