a. [f. prec. + -OUS.] = TENDINOUS. Hence Tendonousness, rare–1 (in quot. 1597 = tendinous part).
1597. A. M., trans. Guillameau’s Fr. Chirurg., 20/2. We must avoyde the synnuishe tendonousnes of the right muscle.
1660. Boyle, New. Exp. Phys. Mech., Digress., 341. Having stabb’d himself, and pierced the Diaphragme in the thinner or tendonous part.
1753. Hervey, Theron & Asp. (1757), I. xii. 450. An assemblage of fine tendonous fibres.
1877. Rosenthal, Muscles & Nerves, xi. 199. The natural ends of the muscle-fibres while still closed with the tendonous substance.
