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

Coordinate terms

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

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)
• Portuguese: cotovelo de tenista m
• Russian: те́ннисный ло́коть m (tɛ́nnisnyj lókotʹ), лучеплечево́й бурси́т m (lučeplečevój bursít), травмати́ческий эпикондили́т m (travmatíčeskij epikondilít), эпикондили́т (ru) m (epikondilít)
• Spanish: codo del tenista m
• Swedish: tennisarmbåge c, tennisarm c