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myotendinous

myotendinous adjective: relating to, or connecting a muscle and a tendon.

Adjective

myotendinous (not comparable)

  1. relating to, or connecting a muscle and a tendon
    • The chromosome 6 encoded utrophin structurally and functionally resembles dystrophin, although utrophin expression is reduced postnatally and confined preferentially at neuromuscular and myotendinous junctions in adult mice [3 –7 ].2015 August 1, “Cis-Acting Sequence Elements and Upstream Open Reading Frame in Mouse Utrophin-A 5'-UTR Repress Cap-Dependent Translation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of myotendinous

From myo- + tendinous.

Questions about myotendinous

What does myotendinous mean?
Myotendinous means relating to, or connecting a muscle and a tendon.
What part of speech is myotendinous?
Myotendinous is an adjective.

Words near myotendinous in the dictionary

  1. myosupressin
  2. myotactin
  3. myotasis
  4. myotatic
  5. myotendinal
  6. myotendinous
  7. myotherapies
  8. myotherapist
  9. myotherapists
  10. myotherapy
  11. myotic

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