ten'don

[L. ten do.] fibrous cord or band of variable length serving to connect a fusiform muscle with its bony attachment; it may unite with the muscle at its extremity or may nm along the side or in the center of the muscle for a longer or shorter distance, receiving the muscular fibers along its lateral border, back t., in veterinary anatomy, the tendon at the back of the cannon bone, central t. of the diaphragm, ten do cordiform is, centrum* tendineum [BNA]. conjoin'ed or conjoint' t., falx inguinal is [BNA]. cor'onary t., a fibrous ring around one of the oriiices of the heart, giving attachment to the valvular leaflets, hamstring t., see hamstring. heel t., ten do calcaneus, t. advance'ment, division of the tendon of an eye-muscle and fixation of the same farther forward on the globe, grafting, (i) the insertion of a piece of tendon from one of the lower animals to supply a defect (2) t. transfer, t. reces's ion, division of the tendon of an eye-muscle and fixation of the same farther backward on the globe, t. reflex, involuntary contraction of a muscle when its tendon of insertion is smartly tapped, t. suture, tend i no suture, tenorrhaphy, t. trans'fer, t. transplant a'- tion, the insertion of a slip from the tendon of a sound muscle into the tendon of a paralyzed muscle. calculus, tenophyte, description, tenography tenontography. disease of, tenopathy. dTvision, tenot-