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APONEUROSIS
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Irregular inflected form: aponeuroses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the deeper and thicker fascia that attach muscles to bones; resemble flattened tendons
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("aponeurosis" is a kind of...):
facia; fascia (a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc)
Derivation:
aponeurotic (of or relating to an aponeurosis)
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