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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A painful inflammation of the tissue surrounding the outer side of the elbow, caused by strain from playing tennis and other sports.
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painful inflammation of theextensor tendon of thehumerus caused byoveruse of themuscles of the lowerarm
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- noun painful inflammation of the tendon at the outer border of the elbow resulting from overuse of lower arm muscles (as in twisting of the hand)
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vendingmachine commented on the word tennis elbow
The difference between golfer's elbow and tennis elbow lies in where the elbow is inflamed. Both tennis elbow and golfer's elbow are forms of epicondylitis, an inflammation of tendons that attach to the elbow. Tennis elbow affects the lateral, or outside, epicondyle and golfer's elbow affects the medial, or inside, epicondyle.
July 7, 2015