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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aponeurosis \Ap`o*neu*ro"sis\, n.; pl {Aponeuroses}. [Gr. ?,
fr ? to pass into a tendon; ? from + ? to strain the sinews,
? sinew, tendon, nerve.] (Anat.)
Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasci[ae] which
cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of many
muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat
and thin. See {Fascia}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
aponeurosis
n : any of the deeper and thicker fascia that attach muscles to
bones; resemble flattened tendons
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