About four years ago my Achilles tendon started to hurt and I was told it was Achilles tendonitis.
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Tendon
//ˈtɛn.dən//
Synonyms for "tendon" (26 found)
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1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
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2 entriesis a
4 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
131 translations across 89 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- dell noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- tendin noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τένων noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Arabic
1 entries- وَتَر noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Armenian
1 entries- ջիլ noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- vətər noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Belarusian
1 entries- сухажы́лле noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Bulgarian
1 entries- сухожи́лие noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Burmese
1 entries- အရွတ် noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Catalan
1 entries- tendó noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- ژێ noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 肌腱 noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- 腱 noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Chuvash
1 entries- шӑнӑр noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Czech
1 entries- šlacha noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Danish
1 entries- sene noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Dutch
1 entries- pees noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Esperanto
1 entries- tendeno noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Estonian
1 entries- kõõlus noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Even
1 entries- хум noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Finnish
1 entries- jänne noun (band of fibrous tissue)
French
1 entries- tendon noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Galician
4 entries- balastrón noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- balistrón noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- bestra noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- fío noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Georgian
1 entries- მყესი noun (band of fibrous tissue)
German
1 entries- Sehne noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Greek
1 entries- τένοντας noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- tandon noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Hebrew
1 entries- גִיד noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Hindi
2 entries- नस noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- स्नायु noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Hungarian
2 entries- ín noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- ínszalag noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Icelandic
1 entries- sin noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Indonesian
2 entries- tendon noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- urat noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Interlingua
2 entries- tendine noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- tendon noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Irish
1 entries- teannán noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Italian
1 entries- tendine noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Japanese
2 entries- 筋 noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- 腱 noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Kapampangan
1 entries- litad noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Kazakh
2 entries- сіңір noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- тарамыс noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Khmer
2 entries- សរសៃ noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- សរសៃពួរ noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Korean
3 entries- 건 noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- 심줄 noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- 힘줄 noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Kriol
1 entries- jinuj noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- сиңир noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- тарамыш noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Lao
3 entries- ນະຫາລຸ noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- ເສັ້ນເອັນ noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- ເອັນ noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Latin
1 entries- tenōn noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Latvian
2 entries- cīpsla noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- dzīsla noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Lithuanian
1 entries- sausgyslė noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Low German
1 entries- Seen noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Fies noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Macedonian
1 entries- тети́ва noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Malay
1 entries- tendon noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠰᡠᠪᡝ noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Middle English
2 entries- synwe noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- thenoun noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Mongolian
2 entries- шандас noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- шөрмөс noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Munsee
1 entries- wchéht noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Māori
4 entries- iaia noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- io noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- iohere noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- ioio noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Nanai
1 entries- сумул noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- jê noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sene noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- sen noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- sene noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Occitan
1 entries- tendon noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Old English
1 entries- sinu noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Ossetian
1 entries- нуар noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- سڭیر noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- طنب noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- عصب noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Persian
2 entries- تاندون noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- پی noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Polish
1 entries- ścięgno noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Portuguese
1 entries- tendão noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Quechua
1 entries- bunelan noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Romanian
3 entries- ligament noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- tendon noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- vână noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Russian
2 entries- жи́ла noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- сухожи́лие noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- tètiva noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- тѐтива noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Slovak
1 entries- šľacha noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Slovene
2 entries- kita noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- tetiva noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Spanish
1 entries- tendón noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Swedish
1 entries- sena noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Tagalog
1 entries- litid noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Tahitian
1 entries- uaua noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Tajik
2 entries- пай noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- раг noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Tamil
1 entries- தசைநாண் noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Telugu
1 entries- స్నాయువు noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Thai
4 entries- ลวดกำ noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- สายตัว noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- เส้นเอ็น noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- เอ็น noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Tibetan
1 entries- རྒྱུད་པ noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Tocharian B
1 entries- ṣñor noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Turkish
2 entries- kiriş noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- tendon noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Ukrainian
1 entries- сухожи́лля noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Unami
1 entries- hàtës noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Uyghur
1 entries- سىڭىر noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Uzbek
2 entries- chandir noun (band of fibrous tissue)
- pay noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Vietnamese
1 entries- gân noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Volapük
1 entries- kordül noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- beerip noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Yakut
1 entries- иҥиир noun (band of fibrous tissue)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
The iliacus inserts onto a tendon.
Source: tatoeba (8979597)
Williams is expected to miss six to eight weeks after an operation Friday to repair a partial tear of the quadriceps tendon in her left knee.
Source: tatoeba (11597313)
The tendon is a connection between the muscle and the bone.
Source: tatoeba (12533033)
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