English
Etymology
tennis + elbow, from the classic/archetypal source of such injury, tennis.
Noun
tennis elbow (usually uncountable, plural tennis elbows)
- a painful inflammation of the extensor tendon of the humerus caused by overuse of the muscles of the lower arm
Synonyms
- lateral epicondylitis
- lateral humeral epicondylitis
Coordinate terms
Descendants
Translations
inflammation
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 網球肘 / 网球肘 (zh) (wǎngqiú zhǒu)
- Dutch: tenniselleboog m
- Finnish: tenniskyynärpää (fi)
- French: épicondylite (fr) f, tennis elbow (fr)
- German: Tennisellenbogen m, Tennisarm (de) m
- Hungarian: teniszkönyök (hu)
- Japanese: テニス肘 (テニスひじ, tenisu hiji)
- Portuguese: cotovelo de tenista m
- Russian: те́ннисный ло́коть m (tɛ́nnisnyj lókotʹ), лучеплечево́й бурси́т m (lučeplečevój bursít), травмати́ческий эпикондили́т m (travmatíčeskij epikondilít), эпикондили́т (ru) m (epikondilít)
- Spanish: codo del tenista m
- Swedish: tennisarmbåge c, tennisarm c
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