tenosuture (tenosutur)

[ 6233 suitable for the subcutaneous division of a tendon; a tenotomy knife. Also ten do to me. tenotomize (te-not'ō-miz), v. t.; pret. and pp. tenotomized, ppr. tenotomizing. [ Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences, V. 96. Valued at or worth tenpenny (ten'pen"i), a . ten pence. - Tenpenny nail. See penny , 6. tenpins (ten'pinz), n. The game of bowls played with ten pins or men in a long alley. The players strive with three or fewer bowls of the ball to knock down all the pins. ten-pounder (ten'pounder), n. 1. See pound- er1, 1 and 2. IMG:content-0092.jpg:[blocks in formation] Future, perfect, pluperfect, present tense. See the adjectives.-Historical tenses. historical, 4.- quence or consecution of tenses. See sequence. tense2 (tens), a. [= Sp. ten so, For the free pa age of the sound into the ear it is requisite that the tympanum be tense . Holder, Elements of Speech, p. 161. Her temples were sunk, her forehead was tense , and a fatal palene sat upon her cheek. Goldsmith, Vicar, xxviii. Tense abdomen, in entom., an abdomen neither divided into segments nor having segments indicated, as in most spiders, by transverse folds.