All 4 Uses of
tendon
in
The Fountainhead
- He leaned on one straight arm, his hand closed over the edge of the table, the tendons showing under the skin of his wrist.†
Chpt 1.15
- She saw it again: his fingertips pressed to the stone, his long fingers continuing the straight lines of the tendons that spread in a fan from his wrist to his knuckles.†
Chpt 2.1
- His closed fist, held down and back, seemed to clutch invisible wires that stretched to every key spot of his lanky, fleshless body, under the ragged pants and shirt, to the long, swollen tendon of his bare arm, to the taut cords of his neck.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- The short shirt sleeves left his arms in the light; vertical ridges of shadow stressed the tensed muscles of his arms and the tendons of his neck.†
Chpt 4.11
Definition:
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(tendon) a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle to bone