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A tendon (or sinew) is a tough band of fibrous connective tissue that usually connects muscle to bone. A tendon is capable of withstanding tension. Tendons are similar to ligaments and fascia as they are both made of collagen, except that ligaments join one bone to another bone, and fascia connect muscles to other muscles. Tendons and muscles work together and can only exert a pulling force. At each end of a muscle, the collagen fibers come together to form a bundle of fibers called a tendon that attaches them to bones. If it forms a broad tendinous sheet it is called an aponeurosis.
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Which word means a band of fibrous connective tissue connecting bones to other bones?
A+ Ligament
What attaches bones to bones and joints to bones?
Ligaments, tendons, muscles, fascia, cartilage and skin all play a part in securing bones to bones and muscles to bones. However, most bones are connected to other bones by ligaments, and muscles are connected to bones by tendons.Ligament attaches bones to bones. Tendon attaches muscle to bones.
What part of the muscle attaches the muscle to the bone?
bones
What are the fibrous bands that attach bone to bone called?
The ligaments are the bands of tissue that connect bones to each other. Ligaments are made up of connective tissue and are similar to tendons. The connective tissue that makes them up is tough, flexible and fibrous. They are made up of collagen fibres. Weight for weight they are as strong as steel wires. Tendons are also strong elastic bands of tissue, but they connect bones to muscle within a joint.
What do tendons link together?
Muscle FibersTendons connect muscles to bones. Not to be confused with ligaments, which connect bones to other bones.Tendons are fibrous connective tissue that are made of collagen. They most commonly connect muscles to bones. The strongest tendon in the human body is the Achilles tendon.
What is a fibrous cord that attaches muscle to bone?
Ligaments are the fibrous connective tissue that holds bones in a joint together.
Are tendons bone to bone or muscle to bone?
No, it is a very tough, fibrous material that connects muscle to bone.
Are bones connected to other bones?
Ligaments, tough, fibrous, tissues, connect bones to other bones.
Which muscle tissue connects bone to bone and muscle to bone?
Tendons connect muscle to bone. Ligaments connect bones to other bones. Both are types of connective tissue. Tendons are extensions of the fibrous tissue between the muscle bundles. Ligaments are made mostly of collagen fibers, giving them a little more flexibility that tendons.
What connects to muscle to bones?
tendons connect muscle to bone and ligaments connect muscle to muscle
What are Strong bands of elastic tissue that connect the bones in a joint called?
Definition of ligament: A sheet or band of tough, fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages at a joint or supporting an organ
What are ligaments and tendons'?
Ligaments are strong bands of tissue that connect bone to bone. Tendons are tough connective tissues that connect skeletal muscles to bones.
