20 Verbs to Use for the Word tendon

Unfortunately, while carrying the hind-quarters to the sled, Beresford slipped and strained a tendon in the left leg.

If we bend the arm or leg forcibly, and grasp the inside of the elbow or knee joint, we can feel the tendons beneath the skin.

"I have known them to work away till they really pulled these tendons out of the foot, and got off.

He tried to sever the tendons to slip the head of the humerus from the socket, but failed.

Manipulated after the manner of examining the tendons for sprain, this swelling is found to be extremely painful.

In the whole of their course the digital arteries follow the flexor tendons, and are related in front to the digital vein, and behind to the posterior branch of the plantar nerve.

The tendons of these two muscles unite to form the tendon of Achilles, as that hero is said to have been invulnerable except at this point.

Lower in the limb these tendons separate, the outer and smaller joining the tendon of the extensor suffraginis, and the inner and main tendon continuing its course downwards.

The Brigade Major's demy-official letter, bearing the intimation of the impending visitationfell as a bolt from the blue and smote the Colonel of the Gungapur Fusiliers a blow that turned his heart to water and loosened the tendons of his knees.

On the outer side note the tendons of the biceps of the leg, running down to the head of the fibula.

"] [Footnote 185: There is a Virginia practice of feeding a fat turkey heavily on bread soaked in wine or liquor just before he is killed, the result being that as the turkey gets into that condition which used to put our ancestors under the table, he relaxes all his tendons and so is sweeter and more tender when he comes above the table.

Scrape the meat carefully from the bones, neck, back, etc., of the goose, remove all tendons and tissues and chop very fine.

His neck, once as sturdy as a bull's, showed the tendons and the arteries under the loose, wrinkled skin; and his mustache, once so arrogant, but now withering with each successive day, drooped dispiritedly like the banner of a defeated army wet with rain.

Instead of killing the snipers, whose age was between ten and seventeen, the surgeons were ordered to slice the tendons of the wrist so that the noncombatants should be prevented from holding a gun or using a knife.

It was a foreleg that was caught, and he would put his hind feet against the jaws of the trap, and then draw by pressing with his feet, till he would stretch those tendons to their utmost extent.

He then turned to his own, to the germs of life that still awaited birth, to knit their joints, to attach the tendons, to mould the muscles,finally, to sway the limbs by a mighty will.

Perhaps it was the cold that made him feel so sick, and that weakened the tendons of his knees so that he could scarcely standand would fain have thrown himself upon the ground.

It then occurred to the starving emigrant that he had a sharp razor in his "kitt" with which he knew he could cut those tough tendons, provided he could get another hold on that tail.

Jacob turned upon the new foe, and wielded his trusty weapon with such energy and success, that in a short time he deprived her of one of her fore paws by a lucky stroke, and completely disabled her, eventually, by a desperate cut across the neck, which divided the tendons and severed the spinal vertebrae.

Take off the head, cut through the skin all round the first joint of the legs, and pull them from the fowl, to draw out the large tendons.

20 Verbs to Use for the Word  tendon