Tendonitis is painful swelling where a muscle joins a bone. Tendonitis in the elbow, treat the tendonitis, chronic tendonitis.
It comes from repetition rather than from one injury, which is why it is named after activities: tennis elbow and golfer's elbow are both this. It is also spelled tendinitis, which is the medically correct form. Rest and gradual loading are the treatment.
1nountendonitisPainful swelling where a muscle joins a bone.
“Years of typing gave her tendonitis in her wrist, and she had to wear a brace.”
tendonitis is a condition.
Ancient Greek
τένων — sinew, tendon
Medieval Latin
tendō
French
tendon
English
tendon
English, today
tendonitis
Built from
From tendon + -itis. tendon Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tendō, from Ancient Greek τένων (“sinew, tendon”), modified by association with the verb tendō (“to stretch”). Compare Middle English thenoun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA