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Word Meanings - TENORRHAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Suture of a tendon.

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  • 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.

 

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