What's the difference between tendon and tenotomy?

Tendon


Definition:

  • (n.) A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
  • (2) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
  • (3) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
  • (4) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
  • (5) Tendon (T) and Hoffmann (H) reflexes were analyzed during static stretching (SS).
  • (6) The results may be summarized as follows: (1) The tendon tissues of the two main groups compared, differ structurally in several respects.
  • (7) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
  • (8) The etiology, diagnosis and surgical treatment of stenosing tenosynovitis of the peroneal tendons is presented.
  • (9) On the other hand, ultraviolet (320-nm) light, absorbed by 3-hydroxy-pyridinium cross-links which were rapidly photolyzed, partially dissociated polymeric collagen aggregates from bovine Achilles tendon after subsequent heating.
  • (10) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
  • (11) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
  • (12) Tension in flexor tendons during wrist flexion may play a role in otherwise unexplained instances of the carpal tunnel syndrome.
  • (13) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
  • (14) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
  • (15) The author maintains that the osteoma of the brachial muscle as well as post-traumatic periarticular calcifications, occur in the muscle mass or in the tendon that prolongs it, or in the articular capsule, as a result of surgical treament and post-operative immobilization, and only exceptionally following orthopaedic treatment of traumatic lesions.
  • (16) Small extensions from the distopalmar outpouchings were seen and extended axially into the fibers of the suspensory ligament or between the suspensory ligament and the distal accessory ligament of the deep digital flexor tendon.
  • (17) Medial canthal tendon resection and tucks or transnasal wiring are then performed.
  • (18) The number of motor units which produced either an 'unloading' or an 'off response' exceeded, on average, the number of motor units which excited the same tendon organ.
  • (19) This method was used in 51 cut tendons in 38 patients.
  • (20) Tendon organ units consistently showed ;in series' response patterns during muscle contractions.

Tenotomy


Definition:

  • (n.) The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Percutaneous tenotomy performed only in patients recurring after temporary cure, drops the rate of recurrences to 13%.
  • (2) Ulcers due to neurectomy with excision of the sciatic nerve are more severe than those due to tenotomy and can be inhibited by a single dose of ACTH.2.
  • (3) Responses of primary and secondary endings of muscle spindles were studied after tenotomy and hypertrophy in the cat soleus muscles.
  • (4) Surgery was recommended only after an Achilles tenotomy failed to bring the foot into dorsiflexion after approximately four months of age.
  • (5) Tenotomy is known to retard the regression of polyneuronal motor innervation in skeletal muscle from neonatal rats.
  • (6) The soleus hypertrophy was induced by unilateral tenotomy of the gastrocnemius and the plantaris muscles.
  • (7) Central core lesions were not prevented in muscles denervated 28 h after tenotomy, indicating that tenotomy effects responsible for central lesions are completed by this time.
  • (8) Tenotomy did not increase the total taurine content of the EDL.
  • (9) The role of nerve impulses and neurogenic factors in the decrease in muscle mass following tenotomy was investigated in 30 adult (15 males, 15 females) guinea pigs.
  • (10) The animals were serially sacrificed, and new tendon tissues generated at the tenotomy site were examined.
  • (11) In all the techniques but one, the marginal tenotomy, a high percentage of correction and a good coefficient of correlation between initial incomitance and obtained correction were found.
  • (12) The number of intrafusal fibres and mechanoreceptors did not change after either tenotomy or immobilization.
  • (13) Within the soleus and plantaris muscles, the type-I fiber atrophy was equal to the type-II fiber atrophy except for the white region of the plantaris following tenotomy, where the wasting of the type-I fiber was greater than that of type II.
  • (14) At the follow-up examination a median of 9 (2-11) years after the operation, a reduction in the hallux valgus angle from 32 degrees to 26 degrees and in the intermetatarsal angle from 13 degrees to 10 degrees was found; but on analyzing the single parts of the operation, we found that the result was only significant in those patients that had had the original procedures done, i.e., tenotomy and reattachment of the conjoined tendon, lateral capsulotomy, and lateral sesamoidectomy.
  • (15) Thirteen percent (five of 37) of all Hoke percutaneous triple hemisection Achilles tendon lengthenings performed at a teaching hospital in a 4-year period were complicated by inadvertent Achilles tenotomy.
  • (16) No change in the twitch time or tetanus-twitch ratio was seen following tenotomy in these muscles despite marked atrophy of the muscle.
  • (17) Finally, tenotomy and posterior rhizotomy leave the myotonic activity in the "deafferentated" muscles unchanged.
  • (18) Tenotomies and tendon transfers offer significant benefit in carefully chosen patients.
  • (19) The results of this experiment illustrate that central core lesions will develop in all three fiber types (types 1, 2A, and 2C) of the soleus following tenotomy.
  • (20) Tenotomie of the sternocleidomastoid muscle seems to be an operation without complications.

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