Intermediate tendon

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Under intermediate tendon is understood in the anatomy such tendons , the muscles across the muscle fiber split into different areas. Tendons usually connect muscles to bones . Intermediate tendons, on the other hand, have no contact with bones;

Probably the most famous intermediate tendons are responsible for the so-called washboard abs. It is that of the straight abdominal muscle , which is divided into individual muscle bellies by several intermediate tendons. As a rule, two of these tendineae intersections and thus three muscle bellies are visible . In addition to the rectus abdominis muscle, intermediate tendons are also regularly found in the digastricus muscle and the omohyoideus muscle . Otherwise they occasionally occur as a normal variant on other muscles.

In most pets , the collarbone is also reduced to a tendon strip ( intersectio clavicularis ) in the brachiocephalicus muscle , which can also be viewed as the intermediate tendon between the two muscle parts, cleidobrachialis and cleidocephalicus muscles .

literature

  • Franz-Viktor Salomon: muscle tissue. In: Anatomy for veterinary medicine. Enke, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8304-1007-7 , pp. 147-234.