单词 | tendon |
释义 | tendonn. a. A band or cord of dense fibrous tissue forming the termination of a muscle, by which it is attached to a bone or other part; a sinew: usually applied to such when rounded or cord-like, broad flat tendons being called fasciæ and aponeuroses.tendon of Achilles: see Achilles tendon n. at Achilles n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > sinew, tendon, or ligament > [noun] sinec725 sinewOE stringc1000 bend1398 nerfa1400 nervea1400 cordc1400 ligamentc1400 ligaturec1400 couple1535 chord?1541 lien?1541 tendon?1541 tendant1614 artery1621 leader1708 ligamentum1713 chorda1807 vinculum1859 Tenon's capsule1868 tendo1874 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. i. f. 1v/1 Chordes or tendones. 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. ii. iv. f. 41v Nerues, tendons, ligamentes. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iv. f. 44v A tendon is the white part in the Muscle beyng hard, thicke, and shynnyng. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xiv. xxiv. 526 Small sinewes, and Tendones. 1726 J. Gay in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 59 The surgeon..told him, that his fingers were safe, that there were two nerves cut, but no tendon. 1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. iv. 149 The radius,..its posterior surface is grooved for the passage of tendons. b. Entomology. (See quot. 1826.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > parts of > frenulum tendon1826 fraenulum1892 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 381 Tendo (the Tendon), a strong bristle, or bristles observable at the base underneath in the under-wings of many Lepidoptera, which plays in the Hamus of the upper-wings. c. Engineering. A steel rod or wire that is stretched while in liquid concrete so as to prestress it as it sets. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [noun] > rod stretched in concrete tendon1958 1958 F. S. Merritt Building Constr. Handbk. v. 56 After the concrete has attained sufficient strength, the steel is secured to the anchor plates and the jacks are removed. The tendons will tend to shorten and therefore will put compression in the concrete. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia IV. 1078/1 The calculation of the initial tensile force required in the prestressing tendons to produce compressive stresses that will counteract the tensile stresses in the concrete. 1975 F. K. Kong & R. H. Evans Reinforced & Prestressed Concrete ix. 196 In pre-tensioning, the tendons pass through the mould, or moulds for a number of similar members arranged end to end, and are tensioned between external end anchorages, by which the tension is maintained while the concrete is placed. 1981 Sci. Amer. June 45/3 The prestressed-concrete reactor vessel..is kept in compression at all times by a network of redundant, tensioned steel tendons that can be monitored and retensioned or even replaced if necessary. Compounds C1. General attributive. tendon cell n. ΚΠ 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II T[endon] cells or corpuscles, connective tissue cells found in tendons and ligaments, arranged in rows following the course of the fibres. tendon corpuscle n. See quot. tendon jerk n. jerk n.1 3a. ΚΠ 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 62 The increased activity of the tendon-jerks is manifested by an excessive jaw-jerk. tendon muscle n. ΚΠ ?15412Tenaunt muscles [see sense aβ. ]. tendon reaction n. tendon reflex n. reflex n. 6. ΚΠ 1878 Med. Times & Gaz. 2 Feb. 107 [Erb] applied to it the name ‘tendon-reflex’. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 519 The knee-jerk is sometimes spoken of as a ‘tendon reflex’. tendon sheath n. ΚΠ 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 67 Effusion into the tendon sheaths. tendon thread n. ΚΠ 1906 Sir F. Treves in Daily Chron. 3 Aug. 3/4 Skins sewn together with a bone needle and a tendon thread. C2. tendon organ n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > sinew, tendon, or ligament > types of sinew, tendon, or ligament > [noun] master sinewa1400 bridle1578 fraenulum1706 fraenum1741 fundiform ligament1889 tendon organ1923 habena- 1923 V. H. Mottram Man. Histol. vii. 225 Similar apparatus is seen in the Golgi tendon organ. 1974 D. Webster & M. Webster Compar. Vertebr. Morphol. x. 202 Both the tendon organ and the muscle spindle fire in response to stretch. tendon spindle n. = spindle n. 4e. ΚΠ 1896 E. L. Billstein tr. P. Stöhr Text-bk. Histol. ii. 115 The medullated nerves of tendons terminate in part in a close plexus of gray nerve-fibers, and in part in tendon~spindles. 1930 A. A. Maximow & W. Bloom Text-bk. Histol. xiv. 276 Not infrequently, of two branches of the same sensory fiber one supplies a muscle spindle, the other a tendon spindle. 1977 D. P. Winstanley tr. Leonhardt Human Histol. 249 Tendon spindles are situated in the tendon close to its junction with the muscle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1541 |
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