Category: T

A part of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebral hemispheres. The process of the dura mater between the cerebrum and cerebellum supporting the occipital lobes.  

A small shelter put over and around someone’s bed so that gas or vapour can be passed inside. An enclosure of material (usually transparent plastic) around a patient in bed, into which a gas or vapor can be passed as part of treatment. An oxygen tent is relatively inefficient as a means of administering oxygen; a…

A muscle which makes a joint stretch out. Any of several muscles of the body that tense an attached structure (e.g., tensor tympani, the muscle that tenses the tympanic membrane eardrum). Any muscle that causes stretching or tensing of a part of the body. A muscle that extends or lengthens a body part.  

Contracted. Nervous and worried.  

Inflammation of the tendon sheath, especially in the thumb. Inflammation or the thickening of the fibrous enclosure around a tendon is termed tenovaginitis. When this condition affects the sheath of a tendon responsible for flexing a finger, it leads to a condition known as trigger finger. Inflammation of the sheath surrounding a tendon.  

A surgical operation to cut through a tendon. Surgical resection of a tendon. Muscle of the hip that extends the hip when contracted. Surgical division of a tendon. This may be necessary to correct a joint deformity caused by tendon shortening or to reduce the imbalance of forces caused by an overactive muscle in a…

A surgical operation to stitch pieces of a torn tendon together. The surgical operation of uniting the ends of divided tendons by suture. Stitching or suturing of a tendon, also referred to as tenosuture.  

A surgical operation to repair a torn tendon. Surgical restoration of a tendon.  

A tissue which lines the orbit of the eye [After Jacques René Tenon (1724-1816), French surgeon]. The fibrous tissue that line the orbit and surrounds the eyeball. The thin fibrous sac enveloping the eyeball, forming a socket in which it rotates.  

The inflammation of a tendon. Inflammation of Tenon’s capsule, which is a sac filled with fluid located at the back of the eyeball.