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urat

“urat” is an Indonesian word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. string or chord-like body structures (muscle, tendon, vein or nerve)
  2. tendon: a tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts
  3. vein: a sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock
  4. muscle
  5. urate: any salt of uric acid

Etymology

From Malay urat, from Proto-Malayic *urat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uʀat, from Proto-Austronesian *huʀaC. Doublet of otot. The sense in medicine was coined by Komisi Istilah to translate English tendon.

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