aponeurosis

Borrowed from New Latin aponeurōsis.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌap.ə.njʊˈɹəʊ.sɪs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌæp.ə.nʊˈɹoʊ.sɪs/
• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

aponeurosis (plural aponeuroses)

1. (anatomy) A flattened pearly white fibrous membrane taking the place of a tendon that binds together and forms the terminations and attachments of muscles or connects them to other body parts like skin or bone.

• aponeurosis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “aponeurosis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “aponeurosis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπονεύρωσῐς (aponeúrōsis, “end of the muscle where it becomes tendinous”), from ἀ̆πονευρόομαι (aponeuróomai, “to become tendinous”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis, nominal suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.po.neu̯ˈroː.sis/, [äpɔnɛu̯ˈroːs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.po.neu̯ˈro.sis/, [äponeu̯ˈrɔːs̬is]

aponeurōsis f (genitive aponeurōsis); third declension (New Latin)

1. (anatomy) An aponeurosis.

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• aponeurōticus (adjective)

→ English: aponeurosis

aponeurosis f (plural aponeurosis)

1. (anatomy) aponeurosis

• “aponeurosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014