APONEUROSIS


Meaning of APONEUROSIS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌa-pə-nu̇-ˈrō-səs, -nyu̇- ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek aponeurōsis, from aponeurousthai to pass into a tendon, from apo- + neuron sinew — more at nerve

Date: 1676

: a broad flat sheet of dense fibrous collagenous connective tissue that covers, invests, and forms the terminations and attachments of various muscles

• apo·neu·rot·ic -ˈrä-tik adjective

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