Usually means: Connective tissue attaching muscle to bone.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. tendons: Merriam-Webster
  2. tendons: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tendons: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tendons, tendons: Wordnik
  5. tendons: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tendons: Wiktionary
  7. tendons: Dictionary.com
  8. tendons: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Tendons: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Tendons: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tendons: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. tendons: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tendons: Merck Manuals
  4. Tendons: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  6. Tendons: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See tendon as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tendon)

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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