tendon
Dense regular connective tissue that connects muscle to bone[VSAO]. [ http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051070 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendon http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000034 ]
Term info
tendon
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
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Dense regular connective tissue that connects muscle to bone.[VSAO]
in FMA, tendon is an organ component that with parts dense-irregular-connective-tissue of tendon and dense-irregular-connective-tissue of tendon sheath; we follow VSAO in making it a subtype of the former. In VSAO tendons connect muscle to bone; in WP the def states integument (e.g. auricular muscles) - but JB confirms this is not actually tendon but aponeurosis
uberon
tendo, sinew
Phylogenetically, tendinous tissue first appears in the invertebrate chordate Branchiostoma as myosepta. This two-dimensional array of collagen fibers is highly organized, with fibers running along two primary axes. In hagfish the first linear tendons appear and the myosepta have developed specialized regions with unidirectional fiber orientation - a linear tendon within the flat sheet of myoseptum.[well established][VHOG]
UBERON:0000043
Term relations
- dense regular connective tissue
- connects some muscle organ
- part of some musculoskeletal system
- connects some bone element