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tendon

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000043

Dense regular connective tissue that connects muscle to bone[VSAO]. [ http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051070 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000034 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendon ]

Term info

Label

tendon

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Achilles-tendon.jpg

external definition

Dense regular connective tissue that connects muscle to bone.[VSAO]

external ontology notes

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

has related synonym

tendo, sinew

homology notes

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]

id

UBERON:0000043