tennis elbow

1. 1.

   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)

   Synonymslateral epicondylitislateral humeral epicondylitis

   Broadertendinitisepicondylitis

Questions about tennis elbow

What does tennis elbow mean?

tennis elbow means "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)".

What is another word for tennis elbow?

Close synonyms include lateral epicondylitis, lateral humeral epicondylitis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tennis elbow a common word?

tennis elbow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.