noun
Meaning 1
Inflammation of a tendon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Inflammation of a tendon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
inflammation of a tendon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: tendonitis, tenonitis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inflammation, redness, rubor
Narrower terms: tennis elbow, lateral epicondylitis, lateral humeral epicondylitis, tenosynovitis, tendosynovitis, tendonous synovitis
History
From New Latin from tendin-, stem of Medieval Latin tendo, from Late Latin tenon, from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “tendon, sinew”). By surface analysis, tendon + -itis and tendo- + -itis but not actually formed in this way; similarly with tendinopathy § Etymology.
Across languages
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