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What is a tendon?
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Tendon: A tendon very simply is the structure that connects muscle to bone allowing the muscle to thereby "do it's thing" i.E move the bone.
Answered 8/1/2016
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Long thin flexible: Tendons can also be broad and flat. Tendons connect muscle to bones.
Answered 10/4/2016
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