Word Meanings - TENORRHAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Suture of a tendon.
Related words: (words related to TENORRHAPHY)
- SUTURE
The line of union, or seam, in an immovable articulation, like those between the bones of the skull; also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic. The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any - SUTURED
Having a suture or sutures; knit or united together. Pennant. - TENDON
A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally - TENDONOUS
Tendinous. - ACHILLES' TENDON
The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.