Tendon

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Tendons are high tensile strands of fibrous muscle tissue that attatch muscle to bone.

The golgi tendon organ is a reflex receptor which is responsible for detecting over "stretching" of muscle fibres and are situated at the junction between muscle fibres and the tendon.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10986/

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