APONEUROSIS (aponeuroses)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: aponeuroses   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does aponeurosis mean? 

• APONEUROSIS (noun)
  The noun APONEUROSIS has 1 sense:

1. any of the deeper and thicker fascia that attach muscles to bones; resemble flattened tendons

  Familiarity information: APONEUROSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APONEUROSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the deeper and thicker fascia that attach muscles to bones; resemble flattened tendons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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)

 Context examples 

An opening in the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle of the abdominal wall through which the spermatic cord (males), round ligament (females), ilioinguinal nerve, and genitofemoral nerve's genital branch pass.

(External Abdominal Ring, NCI Thesaurus)

A soft tissue tumor of young adults with melanocytic differentiation, typically involving tendons and aponeuroses.

(Clear cell sarcoma of soft tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

This sarcoma usually affects the tendons and aponeuroses and is associated with a poor prognosis due to recurrences and metastases.

(Childhood Clear Cell Sarcoma of Soft Parts, NCI Thesaurus)