Talk:Tendon

List of Tendons(and total number of Tendons in the Human body)

According to https://southernhillshospital.com/about/newsroom/framing-within-our-bodies and https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2014/06/protect-your-tendons there is 4000 tendons?? or do they have like larger groups that we can group them into? - How often does it change how many Tendons there is in the human body, every few 100 years or so? - if not more often then that. The list sould be pretty static for a while? and it would make sense to maintain it manually - or is there databases for Humans Tendons somewhere from which one could pull data with a script?

The sources used for the following table is:

- https://books.google.dk/books?id=j7qNAPK8fbcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=tendons&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=tendons&f=false

-https://books.google.dk/books?id=71ibIKaiwFkC&pg=PA14&dq=tendons&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=tendons&f=false

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2100202/

Would it make sense to try and make a complete list of Tendons? Claes Lindhardt (talk) 20:30, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Sortable Table of Tendons in the human body

Sortable Table of Tendons in the human body

Name	part of the human body	Function	Composition
Teres minor tendons	Shoulders and Arms	Rotator cuff tendons at the shoulder	collagen (mostly type I collagen) and elastin embedded in a proteoglycan-water matrix with collagen accounting for 65-80% and elastin approximately 1-2% of the dry mass of the tendon(see: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11085557/)
Infraspinatus tendons	Shoulders and Arms	Rotator cuff tendons at the shoulder
Supraspinatus tendons	Shoulders and Arms	Rotator cuff tendons at the shoulder
Subscapularis tendons	Shoulders and Arms	Rotator cuff tendons at the shoulder
Deltoid tendons	Shoulders and Arms	help bend the elbow or rotate the forearm
Biceps tendons	Shoulders and Arms	help bend the elbow or rotate the forearm
Triceps tendons	Shoulders and Arms	help bend the elbow or rotate the forearm
Brachioradialis tendons	Shoulders and Arms	Help bend the elbow or rotate the forearm
Supinator tendons	Shoulders and Arms	Help bend the elbow or rotate the forearm
Flexor carpi radialis tendons	Shoulders and Arms	help bend the wrist
Flexor carpi ulnaris tendons	Shoulders and Arms	help bend the wrist
Extensor carpi radialis tendons	Shoulders and Arms	help bend the wrist
Extensor carpi radialis brevis tendons	Shoulders and Arms	help bend the wrist
Iliopsoas tendons	Hips and Legs	bend backwards and forwards, and when you swing your leg while walking
Obturator internus tendons	Hips and Legs	bend backwards and forwards, and when you swing your leg while walking
Adductor longus, brevis and magnus tendons	Hips and Legs	bend backwards and forwards, and when you swing your leg while walking
Gluteus maximus	Hips and Legs	bend backwards and forwards, and when you swing your leg while walking
gluteus medius tendons	Hips and Legs	bend backwards and forwards, and when you swing your leg while walking
Quadriceps tendons(patellar tendon/ patella)	Hips and Legs	bend or straighten the knee include
Hamstring tendons	Hips and Legs	bend or straighten the knee include
Sartorius tendons	Hips and Legs	bend or straighten the knee include
Gastrocnemius tendons	Hips and Legs	cross the ankle joint and help move your foot up and down, or side to side
Achilles tendon	Hips and Legs	cross the ankle joint and help move your foot up and down, or side to side
Soleus tendons	Hips and Legs	cross the ankle joint and help move your foot up and down, or side to side
Tibialis anterior tendons	Hips and Legs	cross the ankle joint and help move your foot up and down, or side to side
Peroneus longus tendons	Hips and Legs	cross the ankle joint and help move your foot up and down, or side to side
Flexor digitorum longus tendons	Hands and Feet	help you move your fingers and toes
Interosseus tendons	Hands and Feet	help you move your fingers and toes
Flexor digitorum profundus tendons	Hands and Feet	help you move your fingers and toes
Abductor digiti minimi tendons	Hands and Feet	help you move your fingers and toes
Opponens pollicis tendons	Hands and Feet	thumbs can move toward and away from your other fingers
Flexor pollicis longus tendons	Hands and Feet	thumbs can move toward and away from your other fingers
Extensor pollicis tendons	Hands and Feet	thumbs can move toward and away from your other fingers
abductor pollicis tendons	Hands and Feet	thumbs can move toward and away from your other fingers
Flexor hallucis longus tendons	Hands and Feet	bend and straighten your toes
Flexor digitorum brevis tendons	Hands and Feet	bend and straighten your toes
Lumbrical tendons	Hands and Feet	bend and straighten your toes
Abductor hallucis tendons	Hands and Feet	bend and straighten your toes
Flexor digitorum longus tendons	Hands and Feet	bend and straighten your toes
Abductor digiti minimi tendons	Hands and Feet	bend and straighten your toes
Ocular tendons	Head, Neck and Torso	eyes, eyelids and jaw
Levator palpebrae tendons	Head, Neck and Torso	eyes, eyelids and jaw
Masseter tendons	Head, Neck and Torso	eyes, eyelids and jaw
Temporalis tendons	Head, Neck and Torso	eyes, eyelids and jaw
Trapezius tendons	Head, Neck and Torso	move your head and neck
Sternocleidomastoid tendons	Head, Neck and Torso	move your head and neck
Semispinalis capitis	Head, Neck and Torso	move your head and neck
splenius capitis tendons	Head, Neck and Torso	move your head and neck
Mylohyoid	Head, Neck and Torso	move your head and neck
thyrohyoid tendons	Head, Neck and Torso	move your head and neck
Rectus abdominis tendons	Head, Neck and Torso	twist and turn your body, maintain your posture, or bend and straighten your trunk
External oblique tendons	Head, Neck and Torso	twist and turn your body, maintain your posture, or bend and straighten your trunk
Transversus abdominis tendons	Head, Neck and Torso	twist and turn your body, maintain your posture, or bend and straighten your trunk
Latissimus dorsi tendons	Head, Neck and Torso	twist and turn your body, maintain your posture, or bend and straighten your trunk
Erector spinae tendons	Head, Neck and Torso	twist and turn your body, maintain your posture, or bend and straighten your trunk

As well as maybe a kind of naming convention for what we put into each field of the table as well as how we format it?

Column	Explanation	Formatting
Name	the name of the Tendon in Latin	include/exclude Tendon in the name???
part of the human body	Where it can be found in the human body	????
Function	What is its purpose in the body	???
Composition	An overview of the materials that the tendon is bade of	Ideally given in %?

Hey, this suggestion table is on the main article page and should probably be removed. 155.33.134.42 (talk) 16:31, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

Agree. Have hidden the table in the article and here. Archiving talk page will take care of it. Zefr (talk) 17:19, 29 August 2025 (UTC)