n :  a tough cord or band of dense white fibrous connective tissue that unites a muscle with some other part, transmits the force which the muscle exerts, and is continuous with the connective-tissue epimysium and perimysium of the muscle and when inserted into a bone with the periosteum of the bone .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  den·tin  hy·dan·to·in  tendinea 
 
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