Usually means: Fibrous tissue connecting muscle to bone.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. tendon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tendon: Merriam-Webster
  3. tendon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tendon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tendon: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tendon: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tendon, tendon: Wordnik
  8. tendon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tendon: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. tendon: Wiktionary
  11. tendon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. tendon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. tendon: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. tendon: Dictionary.com
  15. tendon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. tendon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Tendon (Reniss album), Tendon (disambiguation), Tendon (meal), Tendon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Tendon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. tendon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. tendon: Rhymezone
  21. Tendon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. tendon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Tendon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. tendon: FreeDictionary.org
  25. tendon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. tendon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Sushi Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. tendon: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tendon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. tendon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tendon: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. tendon: Natural Health glossary
  5. tendon: Sound Alike Words
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Tendon: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  10. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  11. tendon: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  12. tendon: Medical dictionary
  13. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  14. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  15. Tendon: Drug Medical Dictionary
  16. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See tendons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.
noun:  (biology) The hamstring of a quadruped.
noun:  (construction) A wire or bar used to strengthen prestressed concrete.

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