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Achilles_tendon

Achilles tendon

See also: Achilles' tendon

English

Alternative forms

Noun

Achilles tendon ‎(plural Achilles tendons)

(anatomy) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, and inserted into the bone of the heel.

Synonyms

(anatomy): calcaneal tendon, tendo Achillis, tendo calcaneus

Translations

strong tendon in the calf of the leg

Albanian:
Arabic: وَتَر أَخِيل m ‎(watar ʾaḵīl)
Armenian: աքիլեսյան ջիլ ‎(akʿilesyan ǰil)
Azeri: Axilles vətəri
Bulgarian: ахилесово сухожилие n ‎(ahilesovo suhožilie)
Burmese:
Catalan: tendó d'Aquil·les
Chinese:
Mandarin: 跟腱 (zh) ‎(gēnjiàn)
Czech: Achillova šlacha f
Danish: akillessene c
Dutch: achillespees (nl) f
Finnish: akillesjänne (fi)
French: tendon d’Achille (fr) m
Georgian: აქილევსის მყესი ‎(akilevsis mq̇esi)
German: Achillessehne (de) f
Greek: αχίλλειος τένοντας (el) m ‎(achílleios ténontas)
Guaraní: pytasã
Hungarian: Achilles-ín (hu)
Indonesian: tendon achilles
Interlingua: tendon de Achilles
Italian: tendine di Achille (it) m
Japanese: アキレス腱 ‎(あきれすけん, akiresu-ken)
Khmer: សរសៃពួរកែង ‎(sɑɑ say puə kaeŋ)
Korean: 아킬레스건 (ko) ‎(akilleseugeon)

Lao:
Latin: tendo calcaneus m, tendo Achillis m
Latvian: Ahileja cīpsla f
Lithuanian: kulninė sausgyslė f
Maori: iohere punga
Norwegian:

Bokmål: akillessene m, f

Nynorsk: akillessen f, akillessene f
Polish: ścięgno Achillesa n
Portuguese: tendão de Aquiles m
Romanian: tendonul lui Ahile n
Russian: ахи́ллово сухожи́лие (ru) n ‎(axíllovo suxožílije), пя́точное сухожи́лие n ‎(pjátočnoje suxožílije)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: Ахилова тетива f

Roman: Ahilova tetiva f
Slovak: Achillova šľacha f
Spanish: tendón aquíleo m, tendón de Aquiles m, tendón calcáneo m
Swedish: hälsena (sv) c, akillessena (sv)
Tagalog: litid ni Akiles, litid ni Aquiles
Thai:
Tupinambá: pytasama
Turkish: Aşil tendonu
Vietnamese:
Welsh:

See also

Achilles tendon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia