heel tendon

He chopped at the god's heel tendon again.

Beside it, hanging from its heel tendons, hung a twelve-point buck whitetail deer.

Then the bucks were strung up into branches by their heel tendons, and the men gathered round and butchered them.

Before the start of the season, Brisbane's test centre Justin Hodges damaged an achilles heel tendon at training, ruling him out for the entire year.

Lancers thrust repeatedly at his heels, though it was one of the Iron Horse who used an ax to sever one heel tendon.

Foot conditions, such as having high arches, flat feet, or tight calf muscles or heel tendons, or walking with an inward twist or roll of the foot (pronation).

The blade sped true, and the keen edge flashed under the scale and into the flesh to sever the heel tendon and chop to the bone and lodge in the joint.

Typical injuries range from stress fractures, growth plate disorders, cracked kneecaps and frayed heel tendons to a back condition brought on by excessive flexing that causes one vertebra to slip forward over another vertebra.

He has lived through much of Angola's turbulent history - the era of "The Hole," the brutal isolation unit, of regular beatings with thick paddles and belts, of the time in 1951 when 31 inmates slashed their heel tendons to protest conditions.