Crossword-Solution: TENDO 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Achillis tendo.] (Anat.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; Ð so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

There are numerous cases in which the tendo Achillis has recovered after rupture,--in fact, it is unhesitatingly severed when necessity demands it, sufficient union always being anticipated.

You know, doubtless, that when you sever the _tendo Achillis_ the patient has no further use of his leg; it is just the same as if he had no leg.

Unu tagon en la dauxro ("course") de la milito, iuj el la soldatoj pasis preter la tendo de la regxo, laux la sxtona vojeto laux kiu ili cxiutage marsxis por gardi la tendaron.

Etiology and Occurrence.--Cases are recorded by Uhlrich in which rupture has followed degenerative changes affecting the tendo Achillis.