Both Uses of
tendon
in
Fahrenheit 451
- Music bombarded him at such an immense volume that his bones were almost shaken from their tendons; he felt his jaw vibrate, his eyes wobble in his head.†
p. 42.4 *tendons = bands of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle to bone
- He felt so suddenly shocked by this that he felt Faber was really dead, baked like a roach in that small green capsule shoved and lost in the pocket of a man who was now nothing but a frame skeleton strung with asphalt tendons.†
p. 117.7
Definition:
a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle to bone