tendon

Dense regular connective tissue that connects muscle to bone[VSAO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the tendon is

Dense regular connective tissue that connects muscle to bone[VSAO]. The atlas records it as a tendon at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the tendon is

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What the tendon connects to

The atlas records 20 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of musculoskeletal system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the tendon. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as sinew and tendo. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000043, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: musculoskeletal system.
• A kind of: dense regular connective tissue.
• subtype: calcaneal tendon, central tendon of diaphragm, infraspinatus tendon, perineal body, tendon of biceps brachii and tendon of obturator internus, and 4 more.
• contains: long head of biceps brachii, pes anserinus of tibia, short head of biceps brachii and tendon sheath.
• connects: bone element and muscle organ.
• Continuous with: epimysium.
• bounding layer of: tendon sheath.

Questions

Where is the tendon?

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What does the tendon connect to?

Part of: musculoskeletal system.

Is the tendon the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.