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adj. - Consisting of resembling a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment

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  • The amount of tendinous and ligamentous material in the neighbourhood offers
  • This partly muscular and partly tendinous partition is a most important factor in breathing.
  • Among his other discoveries, in 1878 Golgi described the tendinous sensory corpuscles that bear his name
  • Tenotomy is not of practical benefit unless ample time is allowed for regeneration of divided tendinous tissue.
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