endotenon
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The fine connective tissue between the strands of a tendon.
Example Sentences
- "In the later cases, the transplanted tendon showed a slight hypertrophy of the endotenon and of the blood-vessels (Fig. 2) and was slightly softer than the normal; otherwise no changes were noted."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: τένων