The Emergence Machine

Tendon

physical · anatomy · Level 8 · E5

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

Tendon is a physical structure that connects muscle to bone, leveraging the organized arrangement of matter and the shape or arrangement that matter takes, to facilitate the transmission of force and motion between these two essential components of the body.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “tendon” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “tendon”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0TendonBoneMuscleBodyTissueAnimal… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

thisprerequisitesTendonL8FormL2StructureL2BoneL7MuscleL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Form L2 (requires)
    tendon requires understanding form as a foundational concept
  • Structure L2 (requires) organization sense
    tendon requires understanding structure as a foundational concept
  • Bone L7 (requires)
    Tissue connecting muscle to bone -- prerequisite: bone
  • Muscle L7 (requires)
    Tissue connecting muscle to bone -- prerequisite: muscle