Aponeurosis

The end of a muscle where it becomes tendon, serving to connect a muscle with other muscle parts that it moves.


A band of tissue which attaches muscles to each other.


Aponeuroses, tendon-like expansion with which a flat muscle attaches to other parts.


Fibrous tendon sheets that serve as attachments for muscular fibers and sometimes function as a fascia for muscles; plural is aponeuroses.


A membrane connecting muscles. An aponeurosis is a broad, dense sheet of fibrous tissue that either joins muscles to one another or connects them to bone.


A thin but strong fibrous sheet of tissue that replaces a tendon in muscles that are flat and sheet-like and have a wide area of attachment (e.g. to bones).


The white fibrous membrane which serves as an investment for the muscles and which covers the skull beneath the scalp.


A flat fibrous sheet of connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone or other tissues; may sometimes serve as a fascia.


A broad expanse of resilient and fibrous tissue, functioning akin to a tendon, connects a muscle to either a bone or a joint.


A fibrous membrane that either envelops a muscle or provides an attachment point for a muscle.


 


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