(a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews.
(a.) Well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as, the sinewy Ajax.
Example Sentences:
(1) This situation was exacerbated by the uniquely sinewy physique she says she inherited from her grandfather.
(2) In slim black jeans, motorcycle boots and a T-shirt darkened with sweat from the soundcheck he has just come from, he is anything but rotund – in fact he is lean and sinewy.
(3) It's all there: the glassy black eyes of your typical Roswellian extraterrestrial, big reptilian dragon claws, fat old sinewy Jabba-the-guts – the whole shebang.
(4) Things took a turn for the ridiculous from the beginning: while the traditional format of the show pairs one man and one woman together for the 21-day challenge, Rogen and Franco were both disappointed to learn that they were not going to spend the better part of a month traipsing through the woods with a naked, sinewy female companion but rather one another.
(5) It’s heavy work but we’re used to it.” Older than his sinewy companions, Gomez says he will earn around $825 for spending four months logging in a camp two days up the Mayuruna river from his home village.
(6) At the same time, he largely dispensed with his breathless, gossamer sentences, which often teetered on the brink of preciousness and whimsy, and ushered in a style that was much leaner and more sinewy: "Dick!
(7) But even Kilbourne will tell you: “The extremity of it catches our attention, but this is really not new.” In fact, it’s becoming more of a trend: expect the impossibly slim, the white and the sinewy to dominate chic windows.
(8) He manoeuvres the other with surprising ease: he's a small but compact man, around 5ft 7in, sinewy, with a light mahogany tan; and although there is some grey amid the glossy black curls, it's very easy to forget that he is 70.
(9) The inevitable quote came from Don Pettit, the Nasa astronaut charged with capturing the SpaceX Dragon capsule as it floated alongside, with the Space Station's sinewy, articulated robot arm.
(10) Elias was slight yet sinewy, with fingers like sausages.
(11) Up close, almost cheek to cheek, he is handsome, sinewy, and a little rodent-like: his shaggy, sandy-coloured hair is threaded with grey, and there is blond in his eyelashes and eyebrows.
(12) 's closure is not related to the triumph of feminism – any high-end glossy features far more etiolated women, and the Daily Mail's juggernaut "sidebar of shame" is proof that young women will always click on pictures of sinewy celebrities in bikinis, hoping for diet tips.
(13) "Coming up after the break, we'll be slicing my belly open and watching while smooth black eels loll out in a sinewy cascade of demented horror."
Tendinous
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.
(a.) Full of tendons; sinewy; as, nervous and tendinous parts of the body.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
(2) Given the megadoses of steroids taken by some athletes and the large forces incurred by power-trained musculature, the integrity of tendinous tissue in these athletes may be at significant risk of compromise if steroids do, in fact, exert a destructive effect.
(3) In the course of adaptive changes in these parts certain constructions appear that are oriented transversally to the tendinous fasciculi, but along the pressing vector and having the appearance of basophilic "cross-bars" and oxyphilic "columns".
(4) PHS adhäsiva and Frozen Shoulder had an even distribution of affected sides, whereas the right side was favoured from 1.7:1 (PHS calcarea and PHS destructiva) to 3.5:1 (isolated bicipital tendinitis).
(5) With age there is a progressive deterioration in the capsulo-tendinous cuff of the shoulder: When rotator cuff lesions are limited (in general to the supra-spinatus), the cuff remains continent and functional, thereby ensuring good centering of the humeral head.
(6) Pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF) have been shown to be beneficial in the treatment of rotator cuff tendinitis.
(7) An important part is played by the tendinous arch in the pathogenesis of neuropathy, regardless of whether it is in association with ganglion, osteochondromatosis or osteoarthritis.
(8) The rupture may occur in the tendinous part or cause a fracture of the bone in the region of the insertion.
(9) In 57% there was increased signal intensity in the tendon of the rotator cuff; this might have been interpreted as a rupture of the cuff or tendinitis.
(10) Causes of shoulder pain include supraspinatus tendinitis (the most common), bicipital tendinitis, impingement syndromes, supraspinatus rupture, subacromial bursitis, arthritis, frozen shoulder, and various conditions that refer pain to the shoulder.
(11) The author found that in 6.15% of cases the nervus peroneus communis passes between the tendinous parts of the m. piriformis, and he considers this variation of practical significance for the development of the 'piriformis syndrome'.
(12) Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis is a rare hereditary disease, which manifests with tendinous xanthomas, cataracts, dementia and nervous system involvement.
(13) The following types were found in this study: Type I-A, consisting of only Cpa supplied by Npc (two cases); Type I-D, consisting of Cpa supplied by Npc and Lpa supplied by Ntd (one case); Type II-B, consisting of the tendinous arch and Lpa supplied by Npc (one case); Type II-D, consisting of the tendinous arch and Lpa supplied by Ntd (one case).
(14) Infectious causes of finger pain include cellulitis, tendinitis, paronychia, felon, and infectious emboli, which generally require antibiotics with or without drainage.
(15) Pathologic lesions could be grouped as follows: (1) pain without any clinical signs or US findings (tenalgia); (2) nodular tendinitis which in 52% appeared in the form of a tiny hypoechoic lesion in the ventromedial part of the tendon 2-3 cm proximal to the os calcis; (3) peritendinal oedema; (4) circumscribed tendon swelling, (5) extensive inhomogeneities of tendon structure.
(16) The model incorporates elastic tendinous tissue in series with muscle fibers.
(17) Using this information in our clinical experience, we have developed an exercise program to treat chronic tendinitis.
(18) Four patients are presented with acute tendinitis of the longus colli muscle and the classic radiographic findings of soft-tissue swelling and amorphous calcium deposits in the tendon.
(19) Tenoxicam administered orally, rectally or parenterally is an effective analgesic and anti-inflammatory agent for the symptomatic treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and various rheumatic conditions such as tendinitis, bursitis, sciatica, back pain and gouty arthritis.
(20) More detailed analysis revealed that this increased effect was produced by a definitely better therapeutic result in the group of patients with tendinitis treated with non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) while, in the other types of injury, no definite effect could be observed.