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osseoaponeurotic

osseoaponeurotic adjective: pertaining to an object composed of bone and aponeurosis; at the end of a muscle where it becomes tendon.

Adjective

osseoaponeurotic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to an object composed of bone and aponeurosis; at the end of a muscle where it becomes tendon.

Origin of osseoaponeurotic

From the Latin osseus (“bone”), and Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “from, away from”) plus νεῦρον (neûron, “sinew, tendon”), literally translated as "the end of the muscle where it becomes tendon".

Questions about osseoaponeurotic

What does osseoaponeurotic mean?
Osseoaponeurotic means pertaining to an object composed of bone and aponeurosis; at the end of a muscle where it becomes tendon.
What part of speech is osseoaponeurotic?
Osseoaponeurotic is an adjective.

Words near osseoaponeurotic in the dictionary

  1. osselet
  2. osselets
  3. Ossenfort
  4. Osseo
  5. osseo-
  6. osseoaponeurotic
  7. osseocartilaginous
  8. osseoconductivity
  9. osseodensification
  10. osseoinduction
  11. osseoinductivity

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