A tough sinew that attaches the calf muscle to the back
of the heel bone. The Achilles tendon is one of the longest tendons in the body.
It is also called the tendo Achilles or the tendo calcaneus, the calcaneus being
the heel bone.
According to Greek mythology, Achilles's mother held him as a baby by the heel
and dipped him in the river Styx to make him invulnerable but the heel by which
she held him remained unimmersed and hence vulnerable, as Paris' arrow in Achilles'
heel later proved.
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