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a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle to bone

She ruptured her left Achilles' tendon.

It was nearly a two-hour commute, followed by a day of tendon-ripping labor, but he was willing—the money and the benefits were exceptional.
Junot Diaz -- Drown
I could squeeze it without him yelping, and I suspected he had pulled a tendon.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
The Admiral tried to stretch, and a joint or tendon cracked audibly.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
The tendon's attached to the scar tissue, and that's still really sensitive.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
Above the knees, though, he's scrawny, bruised skin stuck tight to his ribs and skull, arms all tendon and bone.
Allan Stratton -- Chandra's Wars
Only a few ropes of pale tendon still attached the head to the neck.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
A tendon running up the back of Seabiscuit's left foreleg was strained.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
A tendon had been severed.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
Peony's fingers twitched when Cinder hit a tendon, making her jump.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
The only one seem to pay her any tendon at all is Harpo and Squeak's little girl, Suzie Q. She sit cross from Sofia and squinch up her eyes at her.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple
More cartilage and tendon tissue were lost from the chronic inflammation.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
I poked one, it was resilient, so probably it was a tendon.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
Plus, you need to get it looked at to see if you sliced a tendon or something.
Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility
The tendon was cut, the operation over.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
Every tendon is straining, stretched taut like the muscles of cows at the butcher shop that had died in fear.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
A tendon snapped; the archers arm went numb; he dropped on one knee, and his bow fell.
Homer -- The Iliad
It transpired that he had twisted a tendon out of place, and could never have gotten well without attention.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
I chose the spot that had been most exquisite for me: the shallow between the ankle bone and the tendon that rose up the back of the leg.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
His lungs bursting, every muscle and tendon in his legs stretched to the breaking point, St. Jacques reached his sister's house.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

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