explainer video about the human achilles tendon
Calque of New Latin Achillis tendo, a term devised by the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyden in 1693 in reference to the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.
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.
strong tendon in the calf of the leg
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: وَتَر أَخِيل m (watar ʔaḵīl), عُرْقُوب m (ʕurqūb)
- Armenian: աքիլեսյան ջիլ (akʻilesyan ǰil)
- Azerbaijani: Axilles vətəri
- Bulgarian: ахилесово сухожилие n (ahilesovo suhožilie)
- Burmese: ဖနောင့်ကြော (hpa.naung.krau:)
- Catalan: tendó d'Aquil·les
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 跟腱 (zh) (gēnjiàn)
- Czech: Achillova šlacha (cs) f
- Danish: akillessene c
- Dutch: achillespees (nl) f
- Esperanto: aĥila tendeno
- Faroese: hælsina f, hælspong 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)
- Icelandic: hásin (is) f
- Indonesian: tendon achilles
- Interlingua: tendon de Achilles
- Italian: tendine di Achille (it) m
- Japanese: アキレス腱 (ja) (アキレスけん, akiresu-ken)
- Khmer: សរសៃពួរកែង (sɑɑ say puə kaeŋ)
- Korean: 아킬레스건 (ko) (akilleseugeon)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: tendo calcaneus m, tendo Achillis m
- Latvian: Ahileja cīpsla f
- Lithuanian: kulninė sausgyslė f
- Macedonian: Ахилова тетива f (Ahilova tetiva)
- Malay: keting, urat tumit
- Maori: iohere punga
- Northern Sami: šušmesuotna
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: akillessene m or f
- Nynorsk: akillessen f, akillessene f
- Ottoman Turkish: اگریجه (eğrice), عرقوب (ʿurkub), اوكچه سڭیری (ökçe siñiri), صاچ اوزادان (saç uzadan)
- Polish: ścięgno Achillesa (pl) 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: please add this translation if you can
- Tupinambá: pytasama
- Turkish: Aşil tendonu
- Ukrainian: ахіллове сухожилля n (axillove suxožyllja), п'яткове сухожилля n (pʺjatkove suxožyllja)
- Vietnamese: gân gót chân, gân Achilles, gân A-sin
- Welsh: gweyllen y ffêr f
- West Frisian: achillessine
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