tend-, tendo-, ten-, teno-, tenot-, tenonto-, tens-, tent-, -tend, -tension, -tent, -tense, -tensive, -tentious
(Greek > Latin: to move in a certain direction; to stretch, to hold out; tension; as well as tendon, sinew)
tenoplastic
tenoplasty
tenorrhaphy
Suturing a cut tendon.
tenositis
tenosynovitis
tenotome
tenotomy
tense
1. Stretched tight; strained; taut.
2. Undergoing or showing mental stress or displaying nervous strain; anxious; apprehensive; jittery.
tensely
tenseness
tensile, tensility
Undergoing, or exerting tension; capable of being stretched or drawn out.
tensile strength
The maximum tensile stress (stretching) that a material can withstand without failure or breaking.
tensile stress
An external force that acts on a body at both ends, parallel to the length, and that if unopposed will tend to elongate it; that is, the material will stretch.
It is a measure of the intensity of the total internal forces acting within a body across imaginary internal surfaces, as a reaction to external applied forces and body forces.
tensimeter
An instrument that measure small changes in gas or vapor pressure and is used to obtain the temperature point at which one phase of a substance, especially a crystal, is changed into another.
tensiometer
1. Any instrument for measuring tautness or tension; such as, of a stretched wire, fabric, etc., or of the eyeball.
2. An instrument for measuring the surface tension of a liquid.
Related "tension" words at this tono- unit.
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