tennis elbow

tennis elbow

English

Etymology

tennis + elbow, from the classic/archetypal source of such injury, tennis.

Noun

tennis elbow (usually uncountable, plural tennis elbows)

1. 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

Translations

inflammation

Chinese: Mandarin: 網球肘, 网球肘 (wǎngqiú zhǒu) Dutch: tenniselleboog m Finnish: tenniskyynärpää (fi) French: épicondylite (fr) f

German: Tennisellenbogen m, Tennisarm (de) m Hungarian: teniszkönyök (hu) Japanese: テニス肘 (テニスひじ, tenisu hiji) Russian: те́ннисный ло́коть m (tɛ́nnisnyj lókotʹ), лучеплечево́й бурси́т m (lučeplečevój bursít), травмати́ческий эпикондили́т m (travmatíčeskij epikondilít), эпикондили́т (ru) m (epikondilít) Swedish: tennisarmbåge c

Coordinate terms

• golfer's elbow
• runner's knee
• text neck