English words for 'Around the tendon.'
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noun
- A conical prolongation of the lateral surface of the distal extremity of the radius that gives attachment to several tendons and ligaments.
- An eminence on the distal extremity of the ulna projecting from the medial and posterior part of the bone and giving attachment to a ligament of the wrist joint.
- A sharp spine that projects downward and forward from the inferior surface of the temporal bone just in front of the stylomastoid foramen and that is derived from cartilage of the second pharyngeal arch.
- extends from the base of the temporal bone
adj
- Pertaining to the Achilles tendon.
- Of or relating to Achilles Tatius, a Roman-era Greek writer.
- Invincible with only one small weakness (an Achilles heel), which becomes one's downfall.
- Of or relating to sexual or romantic intimacy between men, supposedly in the style of Achilles' relationship with Patroclus.
- Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.
- Guided by emotional motives, especially rage, rather than reason.
noun
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adj
- consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon
- (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
- (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
- (of a person or animal) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful.
- (figuratively) Having or showing nervous strength.
- Tough; having strong sinews.
noun
- (anatomy) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.
- (zoology) A loop on the underside of the forewing of some moths.
- (zoology) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
- (anatomy) A connecting band.
- (botany) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.
noun
- (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
- (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- (mining) A tailing.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- The tail-end of any object.
- (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
- (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- (chemistry) The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- the rear part of an aircraft
- the rear part of a ship
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the time of the last part of something
adj
verb
- To pull or draw by the tail.
- (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- go after with the intent to catch
noun
- The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
- (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
- The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
- The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
- (shoemaking) A metal strip strengthening the waists of shoes. (Also shankpiece.)
- A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
- Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
- (golf) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- A loop forming an eye to a button.
- (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
- (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon, originally in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes.
- Meat from that part of an animal.
- The main part or beginning of a period of time.
- The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
- (metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
- A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
- The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
- (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
- the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
- a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
- a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
- the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
- cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
adj
verb
- (transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
- (shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
- (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
- (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
- (transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
- (transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction
noun
- the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
- the upper joint of the leg of a fowl
- That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect.
- The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.
noun
- The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
- The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
- A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
- A cabless railroad engine.
- (anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
- A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
- Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
- A small island, near a larger island.
- young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo
- the muscular back part of the shank
- fine leather from the skin of a calf
- young of domestic cattle
noun
verb
noun
- A conical prolongation of the lateral surface of the distal extremity of the radius that gives attachment to several tendons and ligaments.
- An eminence on the distal extremity of the ulna projecting from the medial and posterior part of the bone and giving attachment to a ligament of the wrist joint.
- A sharp spine that projects downward and forward from the inferior surface of the temporal bone just in front of the stylomastoid foramen and that is derived from cartilage of the second pharyngeal arch.
- extends from the base of the temporal bone
noun
- (anatomy) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.
- (zoology) A loop on the underside of the forewing of some moths.
- (zoology) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
- (anatomy) A connecting band.
- (botany) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.
noun
- (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
- (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- (mining) A tailing.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- The tail-end of any object.
- (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
- (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- (chemistry) The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- the rear part of an aircraft
- the rear part of a ship
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the time of the last part of something
adj
verb
- To pull or draw by the tail.
- (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- go after with the intent to catch
noun
- The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
- (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
- The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
- The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
- (shoemaking) A metal strip strengthening the waists of shoes. (Also shankpiece.)
- A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
- Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
- (golf) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- A loop forming an eye to a button.
- (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
- (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon, originally in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes.
- Meat from that part of an animal.
- The main part or beginning of a period of time.
- The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
- (metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
- A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
- The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
- (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
- the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
- a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
- a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
- the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
- cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
adj
verb
- (transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
- (shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
- (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
- (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
- (transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
- (transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction
noun
- the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
- the upper joint of the leg of a fowl
- That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect.
- The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.
noun
- The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
- The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
- A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
- A cabless railroad engine.
- (anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
- A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
- Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
- A small island, near a larger island.
- young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo
- the muscular back part of the shank
- fine leather from the skin of a calf
- young of domestic cattle
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adj
- Pertaining to the Achilles tendon.
- Of or relating to Achilles Tatius, a Roman-era Greek writer.
- Invincible with only one small weakness (an Achilles heel), which becomes one's downfall.
- Of or relating to sexual or romantic intimacy between men, supposedly in the style of Achilles' relationship with Patroclus.
- Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.
- Guided by emotional motives, especially rage, rather than reason.
noun
adj
- consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon
- (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
- (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
- (of a person or animal) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful.
- (figuratively) Having or showing nervous strength.
- Tough; having strong sinews.