aponeurosis
Meaning of aponeurosis
noun
a sheet of pearly white fibrous tissue that takes the place of a tendon in flat muscles having a wide area of attachment.
late 17th century: modern Latin, from Greek aponeurōsis, from apo ‘off, away’ + neuron ‘sinew’ + -osis.
Information about aponeurosis
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CatalanHyphenation of aponeurosis
aponeu-ro-sis
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- aponeurosis is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of aponeurosis
- Spanish: aponeurosis
- French: aponévrose
- Italian: aponeurosi
- Portuguese: aponeurose
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