Tendinosis, sometimes called chronic tendinitis, chronic tendinopathy, or chronic tendon injury, is damage to a tendon at a cellular level (the suffix `-osis` implies a pathology of chronic degeneration without inflammation). It is thought to be caused by microtears in the connective tissue in and around the tendon, leading to an increase in ten.....
an inflammation of a tendon in the absence of infection.
A later stage of tendonitis where the tendon starts to fray and tear.