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the small tendons hold the joints together.

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What joints muscles to bone?

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What bones are conected to each other in your tendon muscle?

There is no such thing as the tendon muscle. Muscles contract to move joints tendons connect bone to help form joints.


How does tendon differ from a ligamet?

Ligaments hold bones together at joints. Tendos attach muscle to bone.


What joins bones to bones?

A Ligament or sometimes a Joint or a tendon Attaches a Bone to another Bone. A Tendon attaches a Bone to a Muscle.


What sesamoid bone forms in the quadriceps tendon?

Sesamoid bones are also found occasionally at the metacarpophalangeal joints of the middle and ring fingers, at the interphalangeal joint of the thumb and at the distal interphalangeal joint of the index finger. In the lower extremity the largest sesamoid bone of the joints is the patella, developed in the tendon of the Quadriceps femoris.


Distinguish between tendons and ligament?

Tendons are tough cords of fibrous tissue that attach muscles to bones, facilitating movement and providing stability. Ligaments are also fibrous tissue, but they connect bones to other bones at joints, helping to support and stabilize the joints during movement. In summary, tendons connect muscles to bones, while ligaments connect bones to other bones.


What is a Sesamoid?

A sesamoid is a small bone embedded within a tendon or muscle, typically found where tendons pass over joints. They help to reduce friction and provide leverage for muscles, aiding in movement. The patella (kneecap) is the largest sesamoid bone in the body.


What is the different between the ligament and tendon?

ligaments connect bone to bone, tendons connect muscle to bone and cartilage is the semi solid bones that are present at the places where they required. For example: our external ears, nose, between 2 joints cartilage is present.


A tendon attaches one bone to another?

No, a tendon attaches a muscle to bone. A ligament attaches a bone to another bone.


Is there a tendon that raps around the bone?

Of course, its called bone tendon.


Cord of connective tissue that joins a muscle to a bone?

The part of anatomy that fits this description is the tendon, which attaches the muscle to bone.


A tendon connects one bone to another true or false?

The answer is False. The tendon Connects muscle to the bone.